176.435 - Sanity investigation: Conduct of hearing. - Nevada Statutes

176.435  Sanity investigation: Conduct of hearing.

      1.  On the day fixed, the Director of the Department of Corrections shall bring the convicted person before the court, and the Attorney General or the Attorney General’s deputy shall attend the hearing. The district attorney of the county in which the conviction was had, and an attorney for the convicted person, may attend the hearing.

      2.  The court shall receive the report of the examining physicians and may require the production of other evidence. The Attorney General or the Attorney General’s deputy, the district attorney, and the attorney for the convicted person or such person if the convicted person is without counsel may introduce evidence and cross-examine any witness, including the examining physicians.

      3.  The court shall then make and enter its finding of sanity or insanity.

      (Added to NRS by 1967, 1440; A 1977, 861; 2001 Special Session, 219)