Legal Opinion
State v. Morales
New Mexico Court of Appeals
Decided December 18, 2001No. 22,024PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
PICKARD, Judge.
{1} This case raises issues concerning the meaning of, and procedures to be applied under, NMSA 1978, § 33-2-34 (1999), which is known as New Mexico’s Earned Meritorious Deductions Act (EMDA). The EMDA provides in Subsection (A) that prisoners convicted of nonviolent offenses may earn up to 30 days per month of credit for participation in programs, but that prisoners convicted of serious violent offenses may earn only four days per month of credit. Subsection (L)(4)(a) through (m) lists 13 offenses that are serious violent offenses subject to the four-day limit as a…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Apprendi v. New JerseySupreme Court of the United States · 2000
- McMillan v. PennsylvaniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
- Methola v. County of EddyNew Mexico Supreme Court · 1980
- State v. JohnsonSupreme Court of New Jersey · 2001
- State v. GonzalesNew Mexico Court of Appeals · 2001
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3Cited by28 opinions
- State v. FrawleyNew Mexico Supreme Court · 2007
- State v. AndazolaNew Mexico Court of Appeals · 2003
- State v. MontoyaNew Mexico Court of Appeals · 2005
- State v. WildgrubeNew Mexico Court of Appeals · 2003
- State v. McDonaldNew Mexico Supreme Court · 2004
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