Legal Opinion
State v. Torres
New Mexico Court of Appeals
Decided June 29, 2006No. 25,487PublishedCited by 38 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
CASTILLO, Judge.
{1} In this case, we are asked to consider whether the ten-year limit on qualifying prior felony convictions, as contained in the habitual offender statute, NMSA 1978, § 31-18-17 (2003), also applies to the use of prior robbery convictions in the robbery statute, NMSA 1978, § 30-16-2 (1973). We hold that the ten-year limit does not apply to the robbery statute, and we therefore affirm Defendant’s conviction.
I. BACKGROUND
{2} The facts of this case are not in dispute. Defendant’s first armed robbery conviction occurred in 1988, and he completed his sentence in 1992. In…
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