State v. Powell
New Mexico Court of Appeals
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
HARTZ, Judge.
Defendant, a teacher at Western New Mexico University, was convicted of criminal libel in magistrate court because of accusations he had made against the university’s acting vice-president for academic affairs. He then exercised his statutory right to appeal to district court, where he was entitled to a trial de novo. NMSA 1978, §§ 35-13-1, -2(A) (Repl.Pamp.1988). Defendant moved the district court to dismiss the complaint against him on the grounds that New Mexico’s criminal libel statute is unconstitutional on its face and is unconstitutional as applied to the charge…
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