Legal Opinion
State v. Garcia
New Mexico Supreme Court
Decided December 8, 1980No. 12730PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
EASLEY, Senior Justice.
Garcia appeals from his sentence of life imprisonment, imposed pursuant to our habitual offender statute aftef trial where Garcia was found to be the same person convicted of the underlying felony, residential burglary, and three prior felonies. We reserve and remand.
In this tortuous evidentiary and procedural briar-patch involving five trial judges and four appeals, we have sorted out four issues: (1) whether N.M.R.Crim.P. 47(a), N.M.S.A.1978 (Repl.Pamp.1980), providing that a defendant shall be present at “every stage” of a felony trial, gives the defendant a…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Santobello v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Pointer v. TexasSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
- Lewis v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1892
- State v. O'NEILNew Mexico Court of Appeals · 1978
- State v. SessionNew Mexico Court of Appeals · 1978
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3Cited by27 opinions
- Harry E. Linam v. M. Jerry Griffin, Warden, New Mexico State Penitentiary, and Attorney General of the State of New MexicoCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1982
- State v. WoodruffNew Mexico Supreme Court · 1997
- State v. PadillaNew Mexico Supreme Court · 2002
- State v. SommerNew Mexico Court of Appeals · 1994
- State v. TaylorNew Mexico Court of Appeals · 1985
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