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§ 50.055 — Competency: Judge as witness

Nevada·Title 4 WITNESSES AND EVIDENCE·Ch. 50 Witnesses· GENERAL PROVISIONS
1.The judge presiding at the trial shall not testify in that trial as a witness.
2.If the judge is called to testify, no objection need be made in order to preserve the point.

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Legislative History

(Added to NRS by 1971, 788 )

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