Disclosure of information to subject of investigation
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Del Papa v. Board of Regents of the University & Community College System (1998)
Most recently applied in 649 F. Supp. 2d 1182 - Mazzeo v. Gibbons (June 2009)
(Added to NRS by 1991, 212; A 1995, 1180)
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.
An officer or employee of a court or law enforcement agency who, with the intent to obstruct a criminal investigation, directly or indirectly:
1. Notifies any person who is the subject of the investigation about the existence of the investigation; or
2. Discloses to any such person any information obtained in the course of the investigation,
Ê is guilty of a category D felony and shall be punished as provided in NRS 193.130.
Official source: Nevada Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Nevada statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.