Sheriff, Clark County v. Fernandez

OPINION

An indictment charged Manuel Fernandez with the felonious sale of cocaine, a controlled substance (NRS 453.321,453.171). A pretrial petition for writ of habeas corpus was granted on the *63basis that there was not sufficient evidence before the grand jury to establish probable cause to believe that Fernandez committed the offense charged. We disagree.

The bulk of the evidence before the grand jury consisted of testimony from Ralph Orduno, an undercover narcotics officer with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. The substance of Orduno’s testimony is as follows. Orduno met one…