Legal Opinion
Aguilar v. State
New Mexico Supreme Court
Decided January 11, 1988No. 17057; 9456PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
RANSOM, Justice.
Javier Aguilar (defendant) was convicted of the commercial burglary of Dexter Hardware. This conviction was affirmed by the court of appeals. We granted certiorari. The defendant raises five issues in his petition for certiorari. We address only one, whether the defendant’s confession should have been suppressed as involuntary. As to that issue, we reverse the opinion of the court of appeals and remand for a new trial, disallowing the admission of the confession. As to the remaining issues, we find them either to be without merit or rendered moot by our disposition of…
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