Legal Opinion
State v. Lucero
New Mexico Court of Appeals
Decided March 29, 1990No. 11113PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
MINZNER, Judge.
Defendant appeals his conviction in a jury trial for "battery of a police officer. The sole issue on appeal is whether the trial court erred in denying defendant’s motion for a mistrial after it read the jury a general explanatory instruction used in civil eases. We affirm defendant’s conviction.
The trial court gave the jury an oral, pre-evidentiary instruction, patterned after SCRA 1986, 13-106. The jury was instructed “[t]here are at least two sides to every lawsuit. You should not attempt to make up your mind about the case until it has been submitted to you for…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- Sandstrom v. MontanaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Francis v. FranklinSupreme Court of the United States · 1985
- State v. GunzelmanNew Mexico Supreme Court · 1973
- State v. SimonsonNew Mexico Supreme Court · 1983
- State v. CummingsNew Mexico Supreme Court · 1953
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3Cited by9 opinions
- State v. ParishNew Mexico Supreme Court · 1994
- State v. ArellanoNew Mexico Supreme Court · 1998
- State v. GeeNew Mexico Court of Appeals · 2004
- State v. RiveraNew Mexico Court of Appeals · 1993
- State v. RossNew Mexico Court of Appeals · 2007
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