State v. Office of the Public Defender Ex Rel. Muqqddin

OPINION

BOSSON, Justice.

{1} These consolidated cases ask this court to address for the first time the outer limits of New Mexico’s burglary statute, NMSA 1978, Section 30-16-3 (1971). In more than 40 years, this Court has issued only one burglary opinion and even then on a somewhat tangential issue. See State v. Gonzales, 78 N.M. 218, 430 P.2d 376 (1967). By contrast, over that same time our Court of Appeals has issued numerous opinions that, for the most part, have expanded significantly the reach of the burglary statute, an expansion that has occurred without any parallel change in the…