The court may correct an illegal sentence at any time.
NRS 176.555
Correction of illegal sentence
Applied in 14 court decisions — leading case Edwards v. State (1996)
Most recently applied in Baltazar-Monterrosa (Jose) Vs. State (February 2021)
(Added to NRS by 1967, 1443)
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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.
Official source: Nevada Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Nevada statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.