“Mental injury” means an injury to the intellectual or psychological capacity or the emotional condition of a child as evidenced by an observable and substantial impairment of the ability of the child to function within a normal range of performance or behavior.
NRS 432B.070
“Mental injury” defined
Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case State v. Moran (2009)
Most recently applied in RIMER (STANLEY) VS. STATE (June 2015)
(Added to NRS by 1985, 1369)
Official source: Nevada Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Nevada statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.