New Mexico v. Armijo
Annotate this CaseDefendant Edward Armijo was convicted for driving while intoxicated (DWI). The district court affirmed his conviction, but the Court of Appeal reversed. The New Mexico Supreme Court granted certiorari to consider the State’s arguments that the Court of Appeals lacked appellate jurisdiction over the district court’s decision in an on-record appeal from metropolitan court, and that a defendant had no right to that secondary record review. Addressing only these two issues and declining to conduct a third appellate review of the underlying merits of this case, the Supreme Court held that the Legislature vested the Court of Appeals with appellate jurisdiction over a district court’s on-record appellate review of a metropolitan court proceeding and has provided an aggrieved party the right to such an appeal.
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