Quintana v. Bravo

OPINION

CHÁVEZ, Justice.

{1} Respondents the State of New Mexico and Erasmo Bravo appeal the district court’s grant of Petitioner George Quintana’s petition for writ of habeas corpus. The district court granted the petition based exclusively on the allegations it contained and on those in Quintana’s amended petition, together with a supporting affidavit from one of Quintana’s trial counsel admitting to being ineffective in her representation of him. The district court’s rationale for this unorthodox decision was Respondents’ failure to timely file a response to the amended petition and their…