New Mexico Supreme Court Decisions 2019
Date: November 18, 2019
Citation: 2019-NMSC-022
Docket Number: S-1-SC-37077
Justia Opinion Summary: Following the death of Patricia Lewis (Worker), her widower Michael Lewis (Petitioner) was awarded death benefits under the Workers’ Compensation Act. The Workers’ Compensation Judge (WCJ) based the award on the finding…
Date: November 14, 2019
Citation: 2019-NMSC-021
Docket Number: S-1-SC-37201
Justia Opinion Summary: GandyDancer, LLC, and Rock House CGM, LLC, were business competitors, and both provided railway construction and repair services to BNSF Railway Company. BNSF awarded contracts to Rock House to provide goods and services…
Date: October 31, 2019
Citation: 2019-NMSC-020
Docket Number: S-1-SC-36537
Justia Opinion Summary: The two issues presented by this case came to the New Mexico Supreme Court from a district court’s decision to grant Defendant Jesse Lente’s habeas petition. The first concerned Lente’s indictment, charging him with…
Date: October 31, 2019
Citation: 2019-NMSC-019
Docket Number: S-1-SC-36696
Justia Opinion Summary: After retrial, defendant Matthew Sloan appealed his convictions for burglary and felony murder. At the second trial, the State presented evidence that defendant, armed with a rifle and accompanied by two other men, broke…
Date: October 7, 2019
Citation: 2019-NMSC-017
Docket Number: S-1-SC-35922
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant Lloyd Aguilar was tried on an indictment charging a number of offenses related to a carjacking in which the victim was beaten and shot to death. Several of the charged offenses had complex alternative theories…
Date: October 7, 2019
Citation: 2019-NMSC-018
Docket Number: S-1-SC-36669
Justia Opinion Summary: The New Mexico Supreme Court addressed the enforceability of a guilty plea, particularly because the plea did not expressly, affirmatively state on the record, the accused plead guilty. The Court of Appeals concluded…
Date: September 23, 2019
Citation: 2019-NMSC-016
Docket Number: S-1-SC-37393
Date: August 8, 2019
Citation: 2019-NMSC-015
Docket Number: S-1-SC-36772
Justia Opinion Summary: New Energy Economy (NEE) appealed a New Mexico Public Regulation Commission (Commission or PRC) order approving Public Service Company of New Mexico’s (PNM) renewable energy procurement plan (Plan) for the year 2018. In…
Date: July 18, 2019
Citation: 2019-NMSC-014
Docket Number: S-1-SC-36859
Justia Opinion Summary: The State charged Defendant Manuel Baca with an open count of murder by criminal complaint. The district court found by clear and convincing evidence that Defendant committed first-degree murder and determined that he…
Date: May 23, 2019
Citation: 2019-NMSC-011
Docket Number: S-1-SC-36060
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant Jason Comitz was convicted of first-degree felony murder (by shooting at a dwelling) and second-degree murder for the death of the same person, four counts of aggravated battery of two other victims, two counts…
Date: May 16, 2019
Citation: 2019-NMSC-012
Docket Number: S-1-SC-36115
Justia Opinion Summary: This appeal arose from the final order of the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission (Commission) granting part, but not all, of the increase in retail electric rates sought by the Public Service Company of New Mexico…
Date: May 16, 2019
Citation: 2019-NMSC-010
Docket Number: S-1-SC-37306
Date: February 7, 2019
Docket Number: S-1-SC-37227
Justia Opinion Summary: The New Mexico Secretary of State sought to reinstate straight-ticket voting in the November 2018 general election. A coalition of voters, political parties, and political organizations (Petitioners) sought mandamus…
Date: January 24, 2019
Docket Number: S-1-SC-36508
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant Nathaniel Yazzie entered a conditional plea of no contest to attempt to commit negligent child abuse following the district court’s denial of his motion to suppress. Defendant moved to suppress all of the…
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