State v. Sosa

OPINION

WECHSLER, Judge.0

{1} The legal issue presented in this appeal is whether a district court can exercise jurisdiction over a defendant after the expiration of a probationary term for the limited purpose of determining fugitive status under NMSA 1978, Section 31-21-15(C) (1989) when the defendant is returned to custody in New Mexico prior to the expiration of the original probationary term. We hold that it can and that the district court did not err in determining that Defendant JessiePaul Sosa had been a fugitive from justice for a portion of his probationary term, in denying credit for…