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2007 Nevada Attorney General Reports and Opinions 1 (2007)

handle is hein.sag/sagnv0005 and id is 1 raw text is: OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL CATHERINE CORTEZ MASTO, ATTORNEY GENERAL Purpose: It is the duty of the Office of Attorney General to protect the health, safety and welfare of the people of the State of Nevada. The Attorney General and her staff provide leadership, advocacy, and education with state and local governments to: * Enforce and apply the laws and Constitution of Nevada consistently and equally; * Represent the State of Nevada before trial and appellate courts in criminal, and civil matters; * Serve as legal counsel to the state's constitutional officers, most state agencies, boards, commissions and departments; and * Enforce Nevada's Open Meeting Law and assist the state's prosecutors in investigatory, criminal, and civil matters. * Nevada statutes grant the Attorney General broad law enforcement authority and jurisdiction. The Attorney General has original jurisdiction over most major fraud crimes, all prison inmate crimes, all state employee crimes, and those crimes referred by district attorneys' offices due to conflicts of interest. Nevada Revised Statutes grant the Attorney General the authority to appear in, take exclusive charge of and conduct any prosecution in any court of this state for a violation of any law of this state, when in her opinion it is necessary or when requested to do so by the governor. The statues further provide when the Attorney General is acting in a criminal matter and a statutory duty or right is provided for the district attorney related to the prosecution of that offense, the statutory provision applies to the Attorney General as it would apply to the district attorney if he were conducting the prosecution. * Active Attorney General criminal prosecutions number in the hundreds. Their subject matter is quite broad: insurance, Medicaid, consumer and workers' compensation fraud; capital murder; battery with substantial bodily harm; prison escape; misconduct by a public officer; burglary; theft; child abduction; controlled substances offenses; and many, many others. Our Bureau of Consumer Protection also investigates fraud and deceptive trade practices. * The Attorney General's federal habeas group is the only team of prosecutors in Nevada charged with defending federal post-conviction attacks upon state criminal convictions. * Still other crime prevention, coordination, and public outreach programs quartered within the Office of the Attorney General include: Special

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