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   State Courts - New Mexico - April 10 - April 18, 2007

  
State v. Harbison, Docket No. 29,597, SUPREME COURT OF NEW MEXICO, April 10, 2007, Filed
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Overview: Officer had reasonable suspicion to conduct an investigatory stop of defendant under the Fourth Amendment because he was standing in a group of people with an individual known to have just completed a drug sale and when the officers arrived defendant hurried away in the opposite direction.

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State v. Bomboy, Docket No. 26,687, COURT OF APPEALS OF NEW MEXICO, April 12, 2007, Filed
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Overview: Because there was no warrant and no exigent circumstances, under N.M. Const. art. II, § 10 the officer's seizure of methamphetamine from defendant's vehicle following defendant's arrest outside the vehicle was unlawful. The fact that the officer saw the methamphetamine in plain view did not justify the warrantless seizure.

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State v. Rowell, Docket No. 26,429, COURT OF APPEALS OF NEW MEXICO, April 12, 2007, Filed
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Overview: State failed to present sufficient evidence to support an exception to warrant requirement of N.M. Const. art. II, § 10, for weapons seized from defendant's vehicle after an inventory. Weapons were not within defendant's immediate control when seized, and the mere existence of weapons in vehicle on school grounds did not create inherent exigency.

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State v. Weidner, Docket No. 26,351, COURT OF APPEALS OF NEW MEXICO, April 12, 2007, Filed
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Overview: Officer's seizure of methamphetamine from defendant's vehicle was justified under exigent circumstances exception to the warrant requirement because the drugs, in an elastic band on the visor, were within defendant's reach and immediate control and defendant was in control of the vehicle.

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State v. Scurry, Docket No. 26,197, COURT OF APPEALS OF NEW MEXICO, April 16, 2007, Filed
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Overview: A district court failed to connect defendant's offenses of homicide by vehicle when driving while intoxicated and great bodily harm by vehicle while in intoxicated to intent or recklessness to support a finding that offenses were serious violent offenses under the Earned Meritorious Deductions Act, N.M. Stat. Ann. § 33-2-34. The case was remanded.

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Hamberg v. Sandia Corp., Docket No. 26,559, COURT OF APPEALS OF NEW MEXICO, April 18, 2007, Filed
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Overview: A district court properly dismissed an employee's negligence claim on the ground that a company was immune from tort liability under N.M. Stat. Ann. §§ 52-1-6(D) and (E), 52-1-8, and 52-1-9 where the company was met the special employer test, even though the general contractor for whom he worked was an independent contractor.

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Luna v. Lewis Casing Crews, Inc., Docket No. 29,768, SUPREME COURT OF NEW MEXICO, April 18, 2007, Filed
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Overview: A lower court properly upheld a workers' compensation judge's decision awarding a worker a modest, partial lump-sum payment of his future permanent partial disability benefits even though his Delgado claim against the employer was pending, subject to the employer's right to reimbursement in the event the Delgado claim proved successful.

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Salazar v. Torres, Docket No. 29,476, SUPREME COURT OF NEW MEXICO, April 18, 2007, Filed
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Overview: A worker's intentional tort claim against his employer was barred where he had received a lump-sum payment representing a settlement of all future benefits, aside from medical, that were left open in his workers' compensation case and that election allowed the workers' compensation judge to determine that the cause of his injury was accidental.

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