Dismissal or discharge as bar to another prosecution
Applied in 20 court decisions — leading case Maes v. Sheriff, Clark County (1970)
Most recently applied in GATHRITE (DEANDRE) VS. DIST. CT. (STATE) (November 2019)
(Added to NRS by 1967, 1456; A 1997, 2393)
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. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 174.085, an order for the dismissal of the action, as provided in NRS 178.554 and 178.556, is a bar to another prosecution for the same offense.
2. The discharge of a person accused upon preliminary examination is a bar to another complaint against the person for the same offense, but does not bar the finding of an indictment or filing of an information.
Official source: Nevada Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Nevada statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.