1. The Attorney General when acting pursuant to a specific statute or the district attorney of the proper county shall inquire into all cases of preliminary examinations as provided by law, concerning the commission of any offense, whether the offenders are committed to jail, recognized or held to bail.
2. If the district attorney or the Attorney General determines in any such case that an information ought not to be filed, the district attorney or Attorney General shall file with the clerk of the court having jurisdiction of the supposed offense a written statement containing the reasons, in fact and in law, for not filing any information in the case. The statement must be filed within 15 days after the holding of the preliminary examination.
(Added to NRS by 1967, 1412; A 1975, 655; 1979, 1093; 1989, 164)
Structure Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 173 - Indictment and Information
NRS 173.015 - First pleading by State.
NRS 173.025 - Courts may act upon information for all offenses.
NRS 173.049 - Court clerk may accept information filed electronically; procedure; service.
NRS 173.065 - Judge may require Attorney General to prosecute if district attorney refuses.
NRS 173.075 - Nature and contents generally.
NRS 173.105 - Charging defendant by fictitious or erroneous name: Insertion of true name.
NRS 173.135 - Joinder of defendants.
NRS 173.145 - Issuance of warrant or summons.
NRS 173.155 - Form of warrant; fixing and endorsement of amount of bail.
NRS 173.165 - Manner of proceeding on giving bail in another county.
NRS 173.175 - Ordering defendant charged with felony into custody unless increased bail is given.
NRS 173.185 - Form of summons.