State v. Montoya

OPINION

DANIELS, Justice.

Criminal prosecutions with multiple charges arising from a common fact situation often create difficult challenges, both in evaluating the offenses separately and in determining whether multiple punishments are permissible or appropriate under statutory and constitutional requirements. Among the issues we consider in this direct appeal are two matters of significant precedential value.

One issue involves the interrelationship between the theoretically separate offenses of causing great bodily harm to a person by shooting at a motor vehicle and the homicide resulting…