State v. Groves

DANIELS, Justice.

*195 {1} Defendant Elexus Groves has been indicted on two counts of first-degree murder and other serious felony offenses. In this interlocutory appeal she challenges a district court order of pretrial detention that was based on two independent and alternative detention grounds contained in Article II, Section 13 of the New Mexico Constitution.

{2} The first ground was that Defendant was detainable under the provision that has been part of our Constitution since we became a state, providing an exception to the general right to pretrial release for defendants charged with capital…