Published opinions from 2012. The case name opens the case page.
June 1, 20122 N.M. 30
The court held that several of Swick’s convictions violated double jeopardy because the aggravated batteries were subsumed within the attempted murders and the aggravated burglary convictions arose from a single unauthorized entry.
The Court affirmed the first-degree murder conviction, holding that Defendant was not entitled to a self-defense instruction and that the district court properly excluded untimely or minimally relevant defense evidence.
The court held that the district court violated the defendant’s confrontation right by informing the jury that two non-testifying co-conspirators had pleaded guilty or no contest to conspiracy to commit murder.