Nevada Code § 51.295

Judgment of previous conviction
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1. Evidence of a final judgment, entered after
trial or upon a plea of guilty or guilty but mentally ill, but not upon a plea
of nolo contendere, adjudging a person guilty of a crime punishable by death or
imprisonment in excess of 1 year is not inadmissible under the hearsay rule to
prove any fact essential to sustain the judgment.
2. This section does not make admissible,
when offered by the State in a criminal prosecution for purposes other than
impeachment, a judgment against a person other than the accused.
3. The pendency of an appeal may be shown
but does not affect admissibility.

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