Legal Opinion
State v. Trujillo
New Mexico Supreme Court
Decided January 10, 1980No. 12505PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
EASLEY, Justice.
Genaro Trujillo was convicted by a jury of heroin trafficking. The Court of Appeals reversed the conviction and remanded for a new trial. We granted certiorari. We affirm the reversal, but upon somewhat different grounds than those utilized by the Court of Appeals.
The issue is whether an incriminating statement made by Trujillo, which was made in the presence of police officers, his counsel, and an assistant district attorney shortly after a plea agreement was reached between the State and Trujillo, but which was not admitted in the State’s case-in-chief, was improperly…
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