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DICKERSON v. GRAND JURY WASHOE COUNTY

No. 5072.

412 P.2d 441 (1966)

Harvey DICKERSON, Attorney General of the State of Nevada, Petitioner, v. The GRAND JURY OF WASHOE COUNTY, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Nevada.

March 28, 1966.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harvey Dickerson, Attorney General, and Daniel R. Walsh, Chief Deputy Attorney General, both of Carson City, for Petitioner.

William J. Raggio, Washoe County District Attorney, of Reno, for Respondent.

THOMPSON, Justice.

This is an original proceeding for a writ of prohibition to stop further inquiry by the Washoe County Grand Jury into the operations of the Nevada State Hospital. The petitioner suggests that the permissive inquisitorial powers expressed by NRS 172.300(2) do not allow a county grand jury to inquire into the affairs of a state agency.1 His argument is bottomed on two propositions: first, that NRS 6.135(1) (sometimes referred...

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