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2014 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 30 - Criminal Offenses
Section 27 Malicious Prosecution, etc.
Section 30-27-1 Malicious criminal prosecution.
NM Stat § 30-27-1 (2014) What's This?
30-27-1. Malicious criminal prosecution.
Malicious criminal prosecution consists of maliciously procuring or attempting to procure an indictment or otherwise causing or attempting to cause a criminal charge to be preferred or prosecuted against an innocent person, knowing him to be innocent.
Whoever commits malicious criminal prosecution is guilty of a misdemeanor.
History: 1953 Comp., 40A-27-1, enacted by Laws 1963, ch. 303, 27-1.
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