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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. 35,316

 5 MICHAEL CHAVEZ,

 6          Defendant-Appellant.

 7 APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF BERNALILLO COUNTY
 8 Cristina T. Jaramillo, District Judge

 9 Hector H. Balderas, Attorney General
10 Santa Fe, NM

11 for Appellee

12 Twila A. Hoon
13 Albuquerque, NM

14 for Appellant

15                                 MEMORANDUM OPINION

16 VIGIL, Chief Judge.

17   {1}    Defendant appeals from the district court’s affirmance of his convictions after

18 a jury trial in metropolitan court for driving while under the influence of intoxicating
 1 liquor, failure to maintain lane, and open container. This Court issued a calendar

 2 notice proposing summary affirmance. Defendant filed a memorandum in opposition

 3 to this Court’s notice of proposed disposition, which we have duly considered.

 4 Unpersuaded, we affirm.

 5   {2}   In our calendar notice, we noted that the district court issued a thorough, well-

 6 reasoned memorandum opinion, presenting the facts and arguments of the case and

 7 the district court’s analysis in response thereto. [CN 2] After observing that Defendant

 8 raised the same issues in his appeal to this Court as he did in his on-record appeal to

 9 the district court, we proposed to agree with the district court in its factual

10 presentation, analysis, and conclusion. [CN 2] Consequently, we proposed to adopt

11 the district court’s memorandum opinion for purposes of this appeal. [CN 2]

12   {3}   We invited Defendant to present any specific objections to the facts or the law

13 as presented by the district court in its memorandum opinion—as he would to any

14 other proposed disposition from this Court—with a memorandum in opposition filed

15 within the time allowed. [CN 2-3] See Hennessy v. Duryea, 1998-NMCA-036, ¶ 24,

16 124 N.M. 754, 955 P.2d 683 (“Our courts have repeatedly held that, in summary

17 calendar cases, the burden is on the party opposing the proposed disposition to clearly

18 point out errors in fact or law.”). In response to this Court’s calendar notice, defense

19 counsel has restated the facts and proceedings that were already presented to this

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 1 Court in Defendant’s docketing statement. [Compare MIO 1-14 with DS 1-16] The

 2 facts included in the memorandum in opposition do not appear to include any new

 3 information as compared with the facts and proceedings described in Defendant’s

 4 docketing statement—in fact, the statements of fact in both are substantially

 5 identical—and counsel has not pointed out whether any of the facts asserted are

 6 contrary to those relied on by this Court in our notice of proposed disposition. We

 7 remind counsel that the repetition of material that has already been presented to the

 8 Court, with no indication as to which parts, if any, contradict the facts relied upon by

 9 the district court or this Court or which parts, if any, are responsive to the notice of

10 proposed disposition, is unnecessary and creates additional work for both this Court

11 and the parties. We request that counsel refrain from this practice in any future

12 pleadings she may file with this Court.

13   {4}   Notably, Defendant’s memorandum in opposition does not point to any specific

14 errors in fact or in law in our calendar notice or in the district court’s memorandum

15 opinion. See Hennessy,1998-NMCA-036, ¶ 24. In fact, Defendant makes no mention

16 whatsoever of the district court’s memorandum opinion in his memorandum in

17 opposition; instead, he simply recites the facts that had already been placed before the

18 district court in his statement of appellate issues [RP 87-98] and before this Court in

19 his docketing statement, and presents us with the same arguments he made before the

20 district court and in his docketing statement. [See generally MIO 1-28]

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 1   {5}   We conclude that Defendant has not met his burden on appeal. Accordingly, for

 2 the reasons stated above, as well as those provided in our notice of proposed

 3 disposition, we affirm.

 4   {6}   IT IS SO ORDERED.

 5                                               ______________________________
 6                                               MICHAEL E. VIGIL, Chief Judge

 7 WE CONCUR:

 8 ___________________________
 9 JONATHAN B. SUTIN, Judge

10 ________________________________
11 J. MILES HANISEE, Judge

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