2011 Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 172 - Proceedings After Commitment and Before Indictment
NRS 172.197 - Procedure when person subpoenaed to appear before grand jury intends to assert constitutional privilege against self-incrimination.
1. If a person who has been subpoenaed to appear before a grand jury informs the district attorney that the person intends to refuse to testify and to assert the person s constitutional privilege against self-incrimination, the district attorney shall:
(a) Move for an order of immunity pursuant to NRS 178.572;
(b) Challenge the existence of a valid privilege by filing in any court of record a motion to compel the testimony of the person; or
(c) Withdraw the subpoena.
2. All proceedings which are held on a motion filed pursuant to subsection 1 must be closed.
3. If the existence of the privilege is challenged, the court shall hear the evidence of both parties and determine whether or not a valid privilege exists and to which matters, if any, it extends.
4. The district attorney shall not call a person to testify before a grand jury regarding matters which have been so determined to be within the person s constitutional privilege against self-incrimination.
(Added to NRS by 1985, 554)
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