Legal Opinion
State v. Creech
New Mexico Court of Appeals
Decided January 29, 1991No. 11871PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
MINZNER, Judge.
Defendant appeals his conviction of being a felon in possession of a firearm, contrary to NMSA 1978, Section 30-7-16 (Cum.Supp.1989). He claims as error: (1) denial of his motion to suppress evidence based on an allegedly unauthorized stop of the vehicle, in which he was a passenger, by a conservation officer of the Game and Fish Department; (2) exclusion of testimony tendered for the purpose of impeaching the officer’s credibility; (3) refusal to allow defense counsel to argue to the jury that it could disregard its own determinations of fact and the law as instructed…
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- Brown v. TexasSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
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