In this section, our attorneys explain Nevada’s criminal laws and legal concepts, A to Z
Criminal Law A to Z
In this section, our attorneys explain Nevada’s criminal laws and legal concepts, A to Z
Crimes by NRS Section
Every crime in Nevada is based in a section of the Nevada Revised Statutes (NRS). For each crime, our attorneys explain the laws, penalties and best defenses to fight the charge.
Nevada DUI
Getting arrested for DUI does not mean you will be convicted. Police misconduct, defective breathalyzers and crime lab mistakes may be enough to get your charges lessened or dismissed. Visit our page on Nevada DUI Laws to learn more.
Post-Conviction
Even if you’ve already been convicted of a crime, there is still much you can do to seal your record and restore your rights. Our attorneys explain how.
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If you are at your home in Las Vegas and the police show up with a search warrant, you need to know how to respond in a way that protects your rights and does not make the situation worse.
As a preliminary matter, if you have been served with a search warrant, or you know one has been issued, you should contact a Las Vegas criminal defense lawyer immediately.
Whether anything the police find during their search can be used against you as evidence at trial hinges to a large degree on whether the warrant was properly issued and whether the search itself was conducted in compliance with the warrant, the law, and your constitutional rights. Your lawyer can challenge the admissibility of any evidence improperly obtained during the search.
In addition to retaining a criminal defense lawyer as soon as possible, here are four tips on how to handle the situation when the police come to your Las Vegas home with a search warrant.
Our Las Vegas criminal defense attorneys are ready to assist you. If you anticipate or have been served with a search warrant for your Las Vegas home, please give us a call so we can ensure that your rights are protected.
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A former Los Angeles prosecutor, attorney Neil Shouse graduated with honors from UC Berkeley and Harvard Law School (and completed additional graduate studies at MIT). He has been featured on CNN, Good Morning America, Dr Phil, Court TV, The Today Show and Court TV. Mr Shouse has been recognized by the National Trial Lawyers as one of the Top 100 Criminal and Top 100 Civil Attorneys.
It may be possible to check for warrants in Las Vegas and Clark County online or by phone. To check for warrants by phone, it is recommended that the person hire an attorney to check. People with active warrants do not want to risk calling to see if they have a warrant and then having ...
People can check if they have an outstanding warrant in Arizona by the following four ways: 1. Search court records online A good place to start an online warrant search is with the Arizona Judicial Branch public access case search. It allows people to search by inputting names, birth months, birth years, and specific courts. ...
A motion to quash a warrant is a request for a court to find a warrant, or part of a warrant, to be invalid. “Quash” means to nullify, void or declare invalid. The two most common types of warrants are search warrants and arrest warrants. If a search warrant is quashed evidence can be suppressed ...
The Fourth Amendment provides constitutional protections against unreasonable searches and seizures by the government. This means that law enforcement needs probable cause to search you, your home, car, office, etc. With the exception of Terry Stops, the general rule is that a police search and seizure is only legal if it is: consented to; pursuant to ...