Court Opinion

ID: 9547356
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 17:46:22.60989+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:17:38.986056
License: Public Domain

SOSA, Senior Justice, specially concurring. I concur with the majority opinion insofar as it concludes that the district court cannot modify a death sentence imposed by a jury. However, I call attention to my dissent in State v. Garcia, 99 N.M. 771, 664 P.2d 969, cert. denied, 462 U.S. 1112, 103 S.Ct. 2464, 77 L.Ed.2d 1341 (1983), and the reasons set forth therein regarding my objections to the manner in which death sentences are imposed in New Mexico. WALTERS, Justice. I join in Senior Justice Sosa’s special concurrence.