Nevada Code § 178.750

District attorney to submit annual report to Department of Sentencing Policy on cases filed that included charge for murder or involuntary manslaughter; contents of report
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1. The district attorney for each county
shall prepare and submit a report, on a form approved by the Department of
Sentencing Policy created by NRS 176.01323 ,
to the Department of Sentencing Policy not later than February 1 of each year
concerning each case filed during the previous calendar year that included a
charge for murder or voluntary manslaughter. The district attorney shall
exclude from the report any charge for manslaughter that resulted from a death
in a crash involving a motor vehicle.
2. The report required pursuant to
subsection 1 must include, without limitation:
(a) The name, age, gender and race of the
defendant;
(b) The age, gender and race of any codefendant
or other person charged or suspected of having participated in the homicide and
in any alleged related offense;
(c) The age, gender and race of the victim of the
homicide and any alleged related offense;
(d) The date of the homicide and of any alleged
related offense;
(e) The date of filing of the information or
indictment;
(f) The case number and court in which the case
was prosecuted;
(g) Whether or not the prosecutor filed a notice
of intent to seek the death penalty and, if so, when the prosecutor filed the
notice;
(h) The final disposition of the case and whether
or not the case was tried before a jury;
(i) The race, ethnicity and gender of each member
of the jury, if the case was tried by a jury; and
(j) The identity of:
(1) Each prosecuting attorney who
participated in the decision to file the initial charges against the defendant;
(2) Each prosecuting attorney who
participated in the decision to offer or accept a plea, if applicable;
(3) Each prosecuting attorney who
participated in the decision to seek the death penalty, if applicable; and
(4) Each person outside the office of the
district attorney who was consulted in determining whether to seek the death penalty
or to accept or reject a plea, if any.
3. If all the information required
pursuant to subsection 1 cannot be provided because the case is still in
progress, an additional report must be filed with the Department of Sentencing
Policy each time a subsequent report is filed until all the information, to the
extent available, has been provided.

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