State v. Garcia

OPINION

RIORDAN, Justice.

Richard Reynaldo Garcia (Defendant) was convicted of two murders in the first degree for which he received a sentence of life imprisonment and a sentence of death. Defendant appeals. We affirm.

The issues on appeal are:

I. Whether Corrections Officer Louis Jewett’s statement was properly introduced into evidence as a dying declaration.

II. Whether references to the “Los Carnales” elicited by the State during testimony and emphasized by the State during closing arguments deprived Defendant of a fair trial.

III. Whether New Mexico’s Capital Felony Sentencing Act, Sections…