Legal Opinion
Caristo v. Sullivan
New Mexico Supreme Court
Decided September 23, 1991No. 19,190, 19,232PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
MONTGOMERY, Justice.
We granted each petitioner’s petition for a writ of certiorari 1 to the District Court of Santa Fe County to review the court’s dismissal of each petitioner’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus in that court. We ordered these review proceedings consolidated to consider an important issue common to both — whether the inordinate delays between the filing of the habeas petitions and their ultimate disposition in the district court entitled either petitioner to relief in the form of a default judgment or other remedy.
We are greatly concerned by the delays that…
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