State v. Martinez

Summary

The New Mexico Supreme Court affirmed Lorenzo Martinez’s convictions for first‑degree murder and third‑degree criminal sexual penetration, holding that a deceased victim qualifies as a “person” under the CSP statute, that the jury instruction was not erroneous, that double jeopardy does not bar the convictions, that the corpus delicti was satisfied, and that the evidence supported the murder conviction’s sanity and deliberation elements.