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NRS 51.335

Statement under belief of impending death

Applied in 7 court decisions — leading case Maresca v. State (1987)

Most recently applied in Rugamas v. Eighth Judicial District Court of the State of Nevada ex rel. County of Clark (July 2013)

(Added to NRS by 1971, 797)

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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.

A statement made by a declarant while believing that his or her death was imminent is not inadmissible under the hearsay rule if the declarant is unavailable as a witness.

Official source: Nevada Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Nevada statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.