Sturrock v. State

This Court has previously held that a criminal defendant’s statutory right to post-conviction appellate review of any “intermediate order or proceeding,” see NRS 177.015(2) and 177.045, is an “all-embracive” right, State v. Teeter, 65 Nev. 584, 592, 200 P.2d 657, 661 (1948), and that such a substantial right may not be curtailed absent a specific limiting statute, O’Donnell v. District Court, 40 Nev. 428, 432-33, 165 P. 759, 759-60 (1917). My brethren today announce a novel legal proposition: appellate review of a meritorious claim of pre-trial error is foreclosed in this Court when a…