Opinion
No. 78280
02-13-2020
The STATE of Nevada, Appellant, v. Monique Nicole LOPEZ, Respondent.
Attorney General/Carson City Elko County District Attorney Elko County Public Defender
Attorney General/Carson City
Elko County District Attorney
Elko County Public Defender
ORDER OF AFFIRMANCE
This is an appeal from a district court order granting in part respondent's motion to suppress. Fourth Judicial District Court, Elko County; Nancy L. Porter, Judge.
Having reviewed the parties’ arguments and the record on appeal, we affirm the district court order granting the motion to suppress. We decline to overrule Rice v. State, 113 Nev. 425, 936 P.2d 319 (1997). The motion to suppress was properly granted under Rice. Accordingly,
To the extent appellant makes an argument that the search was proper even under Rice, we conclude appellant has waived that argument as appellant failed to raise it below and raised it for the first time in its reply brief. Old Aztec Mine, Inc. v. Brown, 97 Nev. 49, 52, 623 P.2d 981, 983 (1981) ("A point not urged in the trial court, unless it goes to the jurisdiction of that court, is deemed to have been waived and will not be considered on appeal."); LaChance v. State, 130 Nev. 263, 277 n.7, 321 P.3d 919, 929 n.7 (2014) (holding the NRCP does not allow litigants to raise a new issue for the first time in a reply brief.)
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ORDER the judgment of the district court AFFIRMED.