New Mexico Supreme Court Decisions 2022
Date: September 26, 2022
Docket Numbers: S-1-SC-38874, S-1-SC-38891
Date: September 19, 2022
Citation: 2022-NMSC-021
Docket Number: S-1-SC-37389
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant Christina Banghart-Portillo pleaded guilty to tampering with evidence, and conspiracy to commit tampering with evidence, contrary to (Count 1 and Count 2, respectively), each of which was a fourth-degree felony…
Date: August 25, 2022
Citation: 2022-NMSC-019
Docket Number: S-1-SC-38570
Justia Opinion Summary: Eight named inmates and two nonprofit organizations (collectively, plaintiffs) filed an amended complaint in district court seeking a mixture of a classwide writ of habeas corpus and classwide injunctive and declaratory…
Date: July 14, 2022
Citation: 2022-NMSC-017
Docket Number: S-1-SC-38418
Justia Opinion Summary: On interlocutory appeal, the State challenged the Court of Appeals’ affirmance of the district court’s pretrial ruling that almost all statements made by Declarant Kimbro Talk to sexual assault nurse examiner (SANE)…
Date: June 30, 2022
Citation: 2022-NMSC-015
Docket Number: S-1-SC-38743
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant-respondent Jesse Mascareno-Haidle was charged committing a series of burglaries of residential homes in Albuquerque. The State filed a motion for pretrial detention, and to support its motion, the State…
Date: June 16, 2022
Citation: 2022-NMSC-014
Docket Number: S-1-SC-38769
Justia Opinion Summary: Child, then age seventeen, became Facebook friends with a former schoolmate, Jeremiah Erickson (Erickson), then age nineteen. The two conversed primarily through their respective Facebook Messenger accounts. Child and…
Date: May 19, 2022
Citation: 2022-NMSC-013
Docket Number: S-1-SC-36918
Justia Opinion Summary: A jury awarded four Plaintiffs a total of more than $165 million in damages to compensate them for a tragic accident that claimed half of a young family in a single instant, and left surviving family members physically…
Date: May 2, 2022
Docket Number: S-1-SC-38225
Date: February 9, 2022
Citation: 2022-NMSC-011
Docket Number: S-1-SC-37320
Justia Opinion Summary: The issue presented in this appeal for the New Mexico Supreme Court's review centered on whether contested proceedings were not susceptible to summary judgment in the face of disputed issues of material fact. The Supreme…
Date: February 9, 2022
Citation: 2022-NMSC-012
Docket Number: S-1-SC-37558
Justia Opinion Summary: The issue this case presented was one of first impression for the New Mexico Supreme Court: whether judicial conduct at trial could result in a bar to retrial under the double jeopardy clause of the New Mexico…
Date: January 10, 2022
Citation: 2022-NMSC-009
Docket Number: S-1-SC-37589
Justia Opinion Summary: The issue this case presented for the New Mexico Supreme Court's review was whether the arrest of of Defendant Somer Wright by a noncommissioned, volunteer reserve deputy in violation of NMSA 1978, section 66-8- 124(A)…
Date: January 10, 2022
Citation: 2022-NMSC-010
Docket Number: S-1-SC-38247
Justia Opinion Summary: Citizens for Fair Rates and the Environment and New Energy Economy, Inc., two organizations that represented energy consumers (collectively, "New Energy"), intervened in the administrative proceedings before the New…
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