Nevada Supreme Court, 1980

A Minor v. Juvenile Department Fourth Judicial District Court

Nevada Supreme Court · Decided June 4, 1980

96 Nev. 485; 611 P.2d 624; 1980 Nev. LEXIS 627

Cases that cite this one

5 later published cases cite this decision.

State v. Eighth Jud. Dist. Ct. (Logan D.) (Nev. 2013)
State v. Eighth Judicial District Court of the State of Nevada ex rel. County of Clark (Nev. 2013)
In re ELB (Cal. Ct. App. 1985)
People v. E.L.B. (Cal. Ct. App. 1985)
In the Interest of Dugan (Iowa 1983)

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Opinion of the Court

OPINION ON REHEARING

Per Curiam:

In A Minor v. Juvenile Department, 96 Nev. 332, 608 P.2d 509 (1980), we held that the accomplice corroboration rule was applicable to juvenile delinquency proceedings. Rehearing was granted for the limited purpose of deciding whether that application is foreclosed by NRS 169.025.1

*486The Legislature has dictated, by enacting NRS 169.025, that our criminal procedure statutes, such as NRS 175.291, are not required to be observed in juvenile proceedings. Manifestly, the Legislature has not forbidden their application to juvenile matters. The Legislature has declared, in NRS 62.193(4) and (5), that an adjudication of juvenile delinquency may only be based upon competent, material, relevant, and probative evidence. In our previous decision in this case, we held only that the accomplice corroboration rule was incorporated in the general evidentiary standards imposed by NRS 62.193(4) and (5), independent of the operation of NRS 175.291. Our decision was not foreclosed by NRS 169.025. Nor have we been presented with any compelling reason to alter our previous opinion.2

Accordingly, we adhere to our previous decision in this case, as clarified here, and affirm the judgment of the district court.3

NRS 169.025 provides:

“This Title [which includes NRS 175.291, a statutory statement of the *486accomplice corroboration rule] governs the procedure in the courts of the State of Nevada and before magistrates in all criminal proceedings, but does not apply to proceedings against children under Chapter 62 of NRS.”

We specifically reject the contrary result reached by one of our sister states. See In re Mitchell P., 587 P.2d 1144 (Cal. 1978).

Thus we have no occasion to reach the constitutional question of whether declining to require corroboration of accomplice testimony in juvenile proceedings would be a denial of equal protection. See Breed v. Jones, 421 U.S. 519 (1975).

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