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Nev. Rev. Stat. § 174.075 (2026)

Pleadings and motions

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NRS 174.075  Pleadings and motions.

      1.  Pleadings in criminal proceedings are the indictment, the information and, in justice court, the complaint, and the pleas of guilty, guilty but mentally ill, not guilty, not guilty by reason of insanity and nolo contendere.

      2.  All other pleas, demurrers and motions to quash are abolished, and defenses and objections raised before trial which could have been raised by one or more of them may be raised only by motion to dismiss or to grant appropriate relief, as provided in this title.

      (Added to NRS by 1967, 1416; A 1995, 2451; 2003, 1459; 2007, 1409)

     

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 4 cases, 1970–1981 · leading case: Wyatt v. State, 468 P.2d 338 (Nev. 1970).
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Wyatt v. State, 468 P.2d 338 (Nev. 1970). “On March 1, 1968, the appellant moved to dismiss the information upon a “Motion to Quash Information” (NRS 174.075), upon the grounds of duplicity.”
Williams v. State, 620 P.2d 1263 (Nev. 1981). “NRS 174.075; 174.087-174.135. During the hearing of the motion, the state argued, as it does in this appeal, that because the alibi notice was belatedly filed, it should be excluded.”
Carbonneau v. Warden of the Nevada State Prison, 634 P.2d 1197 (Nev. 1981). · cites it 3× “By NRS 174.075(2) 3 the special pleas were “abolished,” and the defenses formerly raised by such pleas can now be raised “only by motion to dismiss or to grant appropriate relief, as provided in [the Nevada Criminal Procedure Law].”
Jackson v. State, 625 P.2d 1165 (Nev. 1981). “If there were any merit to this contention, it was waived by failure to move to dismiss under NRS 174.075(2). Ex Parte Esden, 55 Nev. 169 , 28 P.”
— Nev. Rev. Stat. § 174.075(2) — 2 cases
Carbonneau v. Warden of the Nevada State Prison, 634 P.2d 1197 (Nev. 1981). “By NRS 174.075(2) 3 the special pleas were “abolished,” and the defenses formerly raised by such pleas can now be raised “only by motion to dismiss or to grant appropriate relief, as provided in [the Nevada Criminal Procedure Law].”
Jackson v. State, 625 P.2d 1165 (Nev. 1981). “If there were any merit to this contention, it was waived by failure to move to dismiss under NRS 174.075(2). Ex Parte Esden, 55 Nev. 169 , 28 P.”
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