Las Vegas Bad Checks Lawyer
Passing bad checks is a serious crime in Las Vegas. The check writer can be charged with a misdemeanor or a felony depending on the amount. Not only that, the check writer is penalized with enormous fees, often exceeding the amount that the check writer should’ve paid for.
The first option in a defense strategy is to negotiate. Otherwise, your attorney is prepared to fight for you all the way to the trial. Learn about bad checks laws in Las Vegas to understand the charges filed against you.
Bad Checks Law Definition
It is considered a crime to pass checks if you do not have enough funds in the bank to pay for it. Particularly, any person who “willfully, with intent to defraud, draws, or passes a check or draft to obtain:
- Money
- Services
- Delivery of other valuable property
- Use of property or
- Credit extended by any licensed gaming establishment (Casino Markers)
Drawn upon any fictitious or real person, firm, bank, corporation, partnership, or depositary, when the person has insufficient money, credit, property with the drawee of the instrument to pay it in full upon its presentation is guilty of a crime.
Intent to Defraud
The key element in the crime of passing bad checks is intent to defraud. This statute means that you have committed no crime if you honestly did not mean to pass a bad check. However, the law in Nevada is inherently unfair. The state law presumes that you intended to defraud once your account has insufficient funds when you passed the check.
Penalties
The sentence for issuing bad checks depend on how much money it was made out for:
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