State Ex Rel. King v. Sloan

OPINION

{1} Carol Sloan, a New Mexico Public Regulation Commission (PRC) Commissioner, was convicted and subsequently sentenced for the felony offenses of aggravated battery and aggravated burglary. That same day, the Attorney General filed a petition for a writ of quo warranto asking that this Court remove Ms. Sloan from office because of her felony convictions. We set the matter for oral argument and ruled from the bench that Ms. Sloan was removed from office because of her felony convictions. We accordingly issued a writ of quo warranto but also ordered the parties to submit supplemental…