Court Opinion

ID: 2793835
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Date Created: 2015-04-15 13:05:09.921921+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:09:09.110409
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 1        IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO

 2 STATE OF NEW MEXICO,

 3          Plaintiff-Appellee,

 4 v.                                                                                     No. 33,811

 5 MICHAEL ALDACO,

 6          Defendant-Appellant.

 7 APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF EDDY COUNTY
 8 Jane Shuler Gray, District Judge

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

12 for Appellee

13 Jorge A. Alvarado, Chief Public Defender
14 Santa Fe, NM

15 for Appellant

16                                 MEMORANDUM OPINION

17 SUTIN, Judge.
 1   {1}   Defendant appeals from the district court’s judgment and sentence, convicting

 2 him of commercial burglary. [RP 112] The judgment and sentence were entered after

 3 a non-jury trial and following the district court’s decision to deny Defendant’s motion

 4 to strike the commercial burglary charge. [DS]

 5   {2}   On the basis of this Court’s opinion in State v. Archuleta, ____-NMCA-___,

 6 ___ P.3d ___ (No. 32,794, Oct. 27, 2014), cert. granted, 2015-NMCERT-__, ___ P.3d

 7 ___ (No. 35,005, Jan. 26, 2015), we issued a notice of proposed summary disposition,

 8 proposing to reverse. The State has responded with an objection to our notice and a

 9 request to hold this appeal in abeyance or provide the State with a reasonable

10 opportunity to seek guidance from the New Mexico Supreme Court on all pending

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

12 State with such an opportunity, and the Supreme Court has denied the State a stay or

13 other remedy that would suspend the precedential value of Archuleta. Thus, pursuant

14 to Rule 12-405(C) NMRA, we apply Archuleta. See Rule 12-405(C) (“A petition for

15 a writ of certiorari filed pursuant to Rule 12-502 NMRA or a Supreme Court order

16 granting the petition does not affect the precedential value of an opinion of the Court

17 of Appeals, unless otherwise ordered by the Supreme Court.”).

18   {3}   In its response to our notice, the State simply objects to our proposed

19 disposition without elaboration. [MIO 1] We continue to believe that there are no

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1 material factual distinctions to remove this case from the control of our opinion in

2 Archuleta. For the reasons stated in our notice, we reverse Defendant’s conviction for

3 commercial burglary.

4   {4}   IT IS SO ORDERED.

5                                         __________________________________
6                                         JONATHAN B. SUTIN, Judge

7 WE CONCUR:

8 _______________________________
9 LINDA M. VANZI, Judge

10 _______________________________
11 J. MILES HANISEE, Judge

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