Maturi v. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department

*308OPINION

By the Court,

Springer, J.:

The issue in this case is whether a police officer’s decision to handcuff a prisoner behind the prisoner’s back, rather than in the front, constitutes a “discretionary” decision that invokes state immunity under NRS 41.032. In this case, the arresting officers’ decision to handcuff behind the prisoner’s back was discretionary in nature because the police manual which controlled the officers’ conduct after the arrest specifically granted the officers discretion to choose whether they would handcuff the prisoner in the front or behind the back. We, therefore,…