Legal Opinion
State v. Ogden
New Mexico Supreme Court
Decided March 14, 1994No. 21156, 21174, 21157 and 21158PublishedCited by 128 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
FROST, Justice.
This is a pretrial interlocutory appeal in a first degree murder prosecution. It raises two central issues: (1) Can a district court make a pretrial determination that there is insufficient factual or legal support to allow the prosecution to seek the death penalty by proving an aggravating circumstance, and (2) is a City of Farmington community service officer a “peace officer” under the statute making the killing of a peace officer an aggravating circumstance in death penalty sentencing, NMSA 1978, Section 31-20A-5 (Repl.Pamp.1990). -Resolving both questions in the…
2Cases cited43 opinions
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- McKoy v. North CarolinaSupreme Court of the United States · 1990
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3Cited by128 opinions
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