State v. Begay

1 IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO 2 Opinion Number: 3 Filing Date: January 23, 2017 4 NO. S-1-SC-35751 5 STATE OF NEW MEXICO, 6 Plaintiff-Petitioner, 7 v. 8 TREVOR BEGAY, 9 Defendant-Respondent. 10 ORIGINAL PROCEEDING ON CERTIORARI 11 John A. Dean, Jr., District Judge 12 Hector H. Balderas, Attorney General 13 Jacqueline Rose Medina, Assistant Attorney General 14 Albuquerque, NM 15 for Petitioner 16 Bennett J. Baur, Chief Public Defender 17 C. David Henderson, Assistant Appellate Defender 18 Santa Fe, NM 19 for Respondent 1 OPINION 2 NAKAMURA, Justice. 3 {1} The question…