Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2015-04-15 13:05:05.918712+00
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 1        IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO

 2 STATE OF NEW MEXICO,

 3          Plaintiff-Appellant,

 4 v.                                                                            NO. 32,795

 5 TYJUAN DAVIDSON,

 6          Defendant-Appellee.

 7 APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF BERNALILLO COUNTY
 8 Michael Martinez, District Judge

 9 Hector H. Balderas, Attorney General
10 Margaret McLean, Assistant Attorney General
11 Santa Fe, NM

12 for Appellant

13 Jorge A. Alvarado, Chief Public Defender
14 Kimberly Chavez Cook, Assistant Appellate Defender
15 Santa Fe, NM

16 for Appellee

17                                 MEMORANDUM OPINION
 1 WECHSLER, Judge.

 2   {1}   The State appeals from the district court’s order dismissing the charge of

 3 commercial burglary brought against Defendant. After first proposing to reverse, this

 4 Court issued a stay pending our decision in State v. Archuleta, ___-NMCA-___, ___

 5 P.3d     ___    (No.      32,794,   Oct.   27,   2014),    cert.       granted ,

 6 2015-NMCERT-___ (No. 35,005, Jan. 26, 2015), the first

 7 of many cases raising the same issue relative to the charge of commercial burglary.

 8 Once the opinion in Archuleta was issued, we relied on that opinion, lifted the stay,

 9 and issued a second notice of proposed summary disposition, this time proposing to

10 affirm. [Ct. App. file]

11   {2}   The State has filed a response objecting to the second notice and requesting

12 that we hold this appeal in abeyance or provide the State with a reasonable

13 opportunity to seek guidance from the New Mexico Supreme Court regarding all

14 pending appeals controlled by our opinion in Archuleta. [MIO 1-2] We have provided

15 the State with such an opportunity, and the Supreme Court has denied the State’s

16 request for a stay or another remedy that would suspend the precedential value of

17 Archuleta. Thus, pursuant to Rule 12-405(C) NMRA, we apply Archuleta. See Rule

18 12-405(C) (“A petition for a writ of certiorari filed pursuant to Rule 12-502 NMRA

19 or a Supreme Court order granting the petition does not affect the precedential value

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 1 of an opinion of the Court of Appeals, unless otherwise ordered by the Supreme

 2 Court.”).

 3   {3}   In its response to our notice, the State simply objects to our proposed

 4 disposition and indicates it is unable to provide any additional facts or legal argument

 5 in response to the proposed disposition. [MIO 1, 3] We continue to believe there are

 6 no material factual or legal distinctions between this case and our opinion in

 7 Archuleta. Therefore, for the reasons stated in our second notice of proposed

 8 disposition, we affirm the district court’s order granting Defendant’s motion to

 9 dismiss the charge of commercial burglary.

10   {4}   IT IS SO ORDERED.

11                                                ________________________________
12                                                JAMES J. WECHSLER, Judge

13 WE CONCUR:

14 ________________________________
15 JONATHAN B. SUTIN, Judge

16 ________________________________
17 M. MONICA ZAMORA, Judge

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