51.295 - Judgment of previous conviction. - Nevada Statutes

51.295  Judgment of previous conviction.

      1.  Evidence of a final judgment, entered after trial or upon a plea of guilty or guilty but mentally ill, but not upon a plea of nolo contendere, adjudging a person guilty of a crime punishable by death or imprisonment in excess of 1 year is not inadmissible under the hearsay rule to prove any fact essential to sustain the judgment.

      2.  This section does not make admissible, when offered by the State in a criminal prosecution for purposes other than impeachment, a judgment against a person other than the accused.

      3.  The pendency of an appeal may be shown but does not affect admissibility.

      (Added to NRS by 1971, 797; A 1995, 2466; 2003, 1480; 2007, 1436)

      NRS 51.305  Judgment as to boundaries or personal, family or general history.  A judgment is not inadmissible under the hearsay rule as proof of matters of personal, family or general history, or boundaries, essential to the judgment, if the matters would be provable by evidence of reputation.

      (Added to NRS by 1971, 797)