Legal Opinion
Sheriff v. Steward
Nevada Supreme Court
Decided August 25, 1993No. 24162PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
2Per curiam
The Washoe County District Attorney charged respondent, Jimmy Winston Steward, and three other persons by way of information with several drug offenses in connection with a police raid on a home in Lemmon Valley near Reno. Following a preliminary hearing, the justice’s court ordered Steward to stand trial on two counts of possession of a controlled substance. See NRS 453.3385, 453.336. The district court subsequently granted Steward’s pretrial petition for a writ of habeas corpus and dismissed the charges against him. We conclude that the district court committed substantial error when…
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