State v. Yazzie

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This memorandum opinion was not selected for publication in the New Mexico Appellate Reports. Please see Rule 12-405 NMRA for restrictions on the citation of unpublished memorandum opinions. Please also note that this electronic memorandum opinion may contain computer-generated errors or other deviations from the official paper version filed by the Court of Appeals and does not include the filing date. 1 IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO 2 STATE OF NEW MEXICO, 3 Plaintiff-Appellant, 4 v. NO. 34,541 5 LIONEL YAZZIE, 6 Defendant-Appellee. 7 APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF McKINLEY COUNTY 8 Robert A. Aragon, District Judge 9 10 11 12 13 Hector H. Balderas, Attorney General Santa Fe, NM M. Anne Kelly, Assistant Attorney General Joel Jacobsen, Assistant Attorney General Albuquerque, NM 14 for Appellant 15 Jorge A. Alvarado, Chief Public Defender 16 Santa Fe, NM 17 for Appellee 18 19 VIGIL, Judge. MEMORANDUM OPINION 1 {1} The State appeals the district court’s dismissal of charges against Defendant for 2 violation of the magistrate court 182-day rule. [DS 2] We issued a notice of proposed 3 summary disposition, proposing to summarily dismiss the appeal for lack of a final 4 order. 5 {2} The State has responded to our notice, indicating that the State will not be filing 6 a memorandum in opposition. [MIO 1] Accordingly, for the reasons detailed in our 7 notice, we dismiss the State’s appeal for lack of a final order. 8 {3} IT IS SO ORDERED. 9 10 _______________________________ MICHAEL E. VIGIL, Chief Judge 11 WE CONCUR: 12 ___________________________________ 13 CYNTHIA A. FRY, Judge 14 _________________________________ 15 LINDA M. VANZI, Judge 2

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