Legal Opinion
Theis v. State
Nevada Supreme Court
Decided September 17, 2001No. 36616PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
2Per curiam
SUMMARY
In this case, we must determine what constitutes a valid “detainer” for purposes of the Interstate Agreement on Detainers (the “Agreement”), which Nevada has codified at NRS 178.620. As it pertains to Nicholas Theis’s case, we must determine whether a detainer was lodged when either: (1) Washoe County recorded the existence of a complaint against Theis in the National Crime Information Center (“NCIC”) database; or (2) Washoe County telephoned the state in which Theis was incarcerated to ask if it could be added to an existing detainer filed by another Nevada county. The district…
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