Formation of jury; number of jurors
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case Davidson v. State (2008)
Most recently applied in Young v. State (July 2023)
(Added to NRS by 1967, 1424; A 1983, 749; 2021, 1312)
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
1. Trial juries for criminal actions are formed in the same manner as trial juries in civil actions.
2. Juries must consist of 12 jurors, but at any time before jury selection, the parties may stipulate in writing with the approval of the court that the jury consist of any number less than 12 but not less than six.
Official source: Nevada Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Nevada statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.