Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2013-06-05 18:50:20.774332+00
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 6        IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO

 7 STATE OF NEW MEXICO,

 8          Plaintiff-Appellee,

 9 v.                                                           NO. 31,449

10 JERALD LINDSEY,

11          Defendant-Appellant.

12 APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF EDDY COUNTY
13 Richard J. Brown, District Judge

14 Gary K. King, Attorney General
15 Santa Fe, NM

16 for Appellee

17 Jacqueline L. Cooper, Acting Chief Public Defender
18 Karl Erich Martell, Assistant Appellate Defender
19 Santa Fe, NM

20 for Appellant

21                                 MEMORANDUM OPINION

22 FRY, Judge.

23          Defendant’s docketing statement challenged the sufficiency of the evidence

24 supporting his convictions. [DS 5] We proposed to affirm the judgment summarily,

25 stating that the evidence, viewed in the light most favorable to the judgment,
 1 supported the convictions. [CN 5] Defendant filed a memorandum in opposition,

 2 which we have duly considered. Defendant’s memorandum, though, does not

 3 persuade us that Defendant was improperly convicted, and we affirm Defendant’s

 4 convictions.

 5        In our calendar notice, we recited the facts that the jury had available on which

 6 to base its verdict, and proposed to conclude that, viewed in the light most favorable

 7 to the verdict, sufficient evidence supported Defendant’s convictions. [CN 4-5]

 8 Although Defendant stated that his appeal concerned “all charges,” we observed that

 9 the docketing statement contained only evidence pertaining to the DWI and drug

10 paraphernalia counts, and declined to consider his other convictions in our calendar

11 notice. [CN 2] We noted that the docketing statement contained “minimal facts,”

12 [CN 2] and invited Defendant to clarify with additional facts in the event that our

13 understanding of pertinent events was incomplete. [Id.]

14        Defendant acknowledges our invitation to provide additional facts, and his

15 memorandum in opposition does recite facts in addition to those in the docketing

16 statement. [MIO 2-4] But the newly provided facts do not convince us that

17 Defendant was wrongly convicted. The new facts include the testimony of the officer

18 who responded to the collision, who stated that Defendant admitted having no

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 1 insurance or registration, and that the officer verified those admissions by “[r]unning

 2 the plates.” [MIO 4]

 3        Defendant’s memorandum in opposition also expands on his factual showing

 4 regarding his convictions for DWI and possession of paraphernalia. [MIO 2-4] He

 5 identifies testimony that Defendant first admitted he was the driver, [MIO 3] then said

 6 he had worked on the car and it “got[] away from him and . . . crashed,” [Id.] then

 7 changed his story to say that another man was driving. [Id.] The memorandum in

 8 opposition further recites that Defendant identified the other man first as David Hale,

 9 then David Vasquez, and finally Daniel Vasquez. [Id.] The memorandum also states

10 that when Defendant told the responding officer that the purported other driver had

11 run away through a field, “the officer – a hunter – looked and found no tracks.” [Id.]

12 Defendant identifies testimony that, rather than finding the marijuana pipe at the

13 scene, Defendant “produced” the pipe, and “asked [the responding officer] not to be

14 charged for it, since he produced it willingly.” [MIO 4]

15        Viewing these newly provided facts in the light most favorable to the verdict,

16 we see nothing in the memorandum in opposition to persuade us that affirmance of

17 Defendant’s convictions for DWI and possession of drug paraphernalia would be

18 inappropriate. Accordingly, we affirm these convictions.

19        CONCLUSION

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1       For the reasons set forth above, and in our notice of proposed summary

2 disposition, we affirm Defendant’s convictions.

3       IT IS SO ORDERED.

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5                                       CYNTHIA A. FRY, Judge

6 WE CONCUR:

7
8 JAMES J. WECHSLER, Judge

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10 J. MILES HANISEE, Judge

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