Court Opinion

ID: 9790092
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 01:46:01.665393+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:37:26.186334
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SOSA, Senior Justice, specially concurring. I concur with the affirmance of the defendant’s convictions for the reasons stated in the majority opinion. However, I respectfully dissent on the issue of the imposition of the death sentence. I would hold that New Mexico’s death penalty statute is unconstitutional and would remand this cause for the imposition of a sentence of life imprisonment for the reasons stated in my specially concurring opinion in State v. Garcia, 99 N.M. 771, 664 P.2d 969, cert. denied, — U.S. —, 103 S.Ct. 2464, 77 L.Ed.2d 1341 (1983).