Legal Opinion
State v. Garcia
New Mexico Supreme Court
Decided August 10, 1992No. 19806PublishedCited by 165 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
MONTGOMERY, Justice.
According to a leading authority on the law of criminal homicide in New Mexico,
No New Mexico case reviewing a deliberate intention first degree murder conviction has ever held that the evidence did not support a deliberate murder but instead supported no more than a nondeliberate or impulsive second degree murder.
Leo M. Romero, A Critique of the Willful, Deliberate, and Premeditated Formula for Distinguishing Between First and Second Degree Murder in New Mexico, 18 N.M.L.Rev. 73, 84 (1988).
This case fills that gap.
I
David Garcia was convicted of first degree murder…
2Cases cited21 opinions
- Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- In Re WINSHIPSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
- State v. SutphinNew Mexico Supreme Court · 1988
- State v. ManusNew Mexico Supreme Court · 1979
- State v. OrtegaNew Mexico Supreme Court · 1991
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3Cited by165 opinions
- State v. RojoNew Mexico Supreme Court · 1998
- State v. CunninghamNew Mexico Supreme Court · 2000
- State v. ApodacaNew Mexico Supreme Court · 1994
- State v. TrujilloNew Mexico Supreme Court · 2002
- State v. CoffinNew Mexico Supreme Court · 1999
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