Nevada § 175.141 - Order of trial

§ 175.141. Order of trial

The jury having been impaneled and sworn, the trial shall proceed in the following

order: 1. If the indictment or information be for a felony, the clerk must read it and state

the plea of the defendant to the jury. In all other cases this formality may be dispensed with. 2. The prosecuting attorney must open the cause. The defendant or the defendant's counsel may then either make the defendant's opening

statement or reserve it to be made immediately prior to the presentation of evidence

in the defendant's behalf. 3. The prosecuting attorney must then offer its evidence in support of the charge,

and the defendant may then offer evidence in his or her defense. 4. The parties may then respectively offer rebutting testimony only, unless the court,

for good reasons, in furtherance of justice, permits them to offer evidence upon their

original cause. 5. When the evidence is concluded, unless the case is submitted to the jury on either

side, or on both sides, without argument, the prosecuting attorney must open and must

conclude the argument.