Legal Opinion
Richards v. Patton
New Mexico Supreme Court
Decided June 25, 1985No. 15798PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
FEDERICI, Chief Justice.
Court-appointed attorney petitions this Court for a writ of mandamus against the Chief Public Defender, Janet Clow (Chief Public Defender), and a writ of prohibition against the Honorable Larry Johnson (Judge Johnson), District Judge of the Fifth Judicial District. The relief sought against the Chief Public Defender is to require the Public Defender Department to perform its statutory duties of providing counsel for indigents in criminal proceedings pending in the trial court when the local public defender claims to be disqualified because of a conflict of…
2Cases cited9 opinions
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- State v. RobinsonNew Mexico Supreme Court · 1983
- State v. RasconNew Mexico Supreme Court · 1976
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3Cited by12 opinions
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- McCall v. District Court for the Twenty-First Judicial DistrictSupreme Court of Colorado · 1989
- State Ex Rel. Public Defender Commission v. BonackerSupreme Court of Missouri · 1986
- Morales v. BridgforthNew Mexico Supreme Court · 2004
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