Bustos v. Sheriff, Clark County

OPINION

By the Court,

Thompson, J.:

This is an appeal from a district court denial of habeas corpus. The petition for discharge from restraint alleged that the justice of the peace illegally granted a continuance of a scheduled preliminary examination in that he failed to honor the directive of Hill v. Sheriff, 85 Nev. 234, 452 P.2d 918 (1969). In that case we ruled that the “reasons underlying DCR 21 are equally appropriate to the continuance of a criminal proceeding in the justices’ court” and that statutory “good cause” for continuance [NRS 171.196(2)] contemplates that the party seeking a…