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BARON v. NINTH JUDICIAL DIST. COURT, ETC.

No. 11889.

600 P.2d 1192 (1979)

Bruce Scott BARON, Petitioner, v. The NINTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT of the State of Nevada, IN AND FOR the COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, and Howard D. McKibben, District Judge, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Nevada.

October 12, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Norman Y. Herring, State Public Defender, and David Mathews, Deputy State Public Defender, Carson City, for petitioner.

Richard H. Bryan, Atty. Gen., Carson City, Michael Smiley Rowe, Dist. Atty., Douglas County, Minden, for respondents.

OPINION

PER CURIAM:

On the instant petition we are confronted with the question of the proper means to make a probable cause determination supporting a criminal information for the offense of battery on a police officer. In our prior decisions, we have established that though the offense is a misdemeanor, jurisdiction lies in the district court. Battiato v. Sheriff, 95 Nev. 361, 594 P.2d 1152 (1979). Further, we have...

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