NRS 34.005: Prosecuting agency” defined.

As used in this chapter, “prosecuting agency” means:

1. The district attorney of the county in which the judgment of conviction or sentence being challenged in a petition for a writ of habeas corpus was obtained, if the district attorney or a deputy district attorney prosecuted the petitioner in the original proceeding which led to the judgment of conviction or sentence; or

2. The Attorney General, if the Attorney General or a deputy attorney general prosecuted the petitioner in the original proceeding which led to the judgment of conviction or sentence being challenged in a petition for a writ of habeas corpus.