ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A 2nd Judicial District Court judge denied a motion to put a man tied to a grisly child killing back in jail. Instead, Judge Charles Brown eased pretrial release conditions on Fabian Gonzales to allow him to work outside Bernalillo County and to be unsupervised around children. Gonzales will now be allowed…
Court of Appeals unanimously affirms Judge Brown’s decision to release Fabian Gonzales
Juvenile defendant released pending trial in Santa Fe murder case
NM Supreme Court abolishes spousal privilege
The jury acquitted Rachel Smith in the death of an infant she was babysitting.
SANTA FE — A woman who was acquitted of killing an infant at a Santa Fe motel in March 2017 got credit for time served while awaiting trial for convictions on lesser charges and will no longer be incarcerated. In a trial that began in June, Rachel Smith, 27, was found not guilty of child…
Rachel Smith walks out of court after being acquitted of child abuse resulting in death in District Court on Wednesday, July 3, 2019. Luis Sánchez Saturno/The New Mexican Angel Arellano, mother of Jonathan Valenzuela, cries in district court on Wednesday, July 3, 2019, as the jury read a not guilty verdict for Rachel Smith for…
Judge will not reconsider sentence for woman who killed 2 in DWI crash
by ELISE KAPLAN / JOURNAL STAFF WRITER Republican legislators from Rio Rancho are calling for a judge to resign after he sentenced a drunken driver who killed two people to three years in prison. Christie Noriega, 32, pleaded guilty in September to two counts of vehicular homicide and aggravated driving while intoxicated in the deaths of…
Jessica Kelley accepts Plea Deal
by Sami Edge The New Mexican | © The New Mexican | reprinted with permission District Attorney Marco Serna said Tuesday he will dismiss a murder charge against a 17-year-old Santa Fe boy, but the youth remains a suspect in the shooting death of a man from Michigan. The defendant, Zachary Gutierrez, was charged in the murder…
Murder charges dropped in Airport Road shooting
Prosecutors filed charges accusing Mr. Baldwin and the film’s armorer of involuntary manslaughter after its cinematographer was fatally shot on set with a gun loaded with a live round. By Julia Jacobs Published Jan. 31, 2023Updated Feb. 10, 2023 The actor Alec Baldwin and the armorer on the film “Rust” were charged on Tuesday with involuntary manslaughter in the fatal…
They filed a motion in the “Rust” case asserting that prosecutors had applied a new version of a firearms statute that did not exist when the fatal shooting occurred. By Graham Bowley and Julia Jacobs Feb. 10, 2023, 6:30 p.m. ET Lawyers for Alec Baldwin argued in a court filing on Friday that prosecutors had incorrectly charged the actor…
Zachary Gutierrez, 20, breaks down in tears Friday in Judge T. Glen Ellington’s courtroom after he was found not guilty in the 2018 shooting death of Richard Milan. Gutierrez was charged with second-degree murder after his companions that night made statements to police implicating him in Milan’s death. But two of the three girls in…
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Court of Appeals unanimous decision
National Expungement Week
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In 2019, New Mexico enacted a comprehensive law authorizing expungement (sealing) of most non-conviction records, and of conviction records in all but the most serious violent and sexual crimes. Effective January 1, 2020, the Criminal Record Expungement Act (CREA) authorizes courts to limit public access to all but a limited category of non-conviction records after…
Editorial Outlines Reasons to Support Expungement Statute
Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed a series of criminal justice bills into law Wednesday, allowing more New Mexicans to expunge records of past arrests or convictions and banning employers from asking about criminal history on an initial job application. In signing the bills, the new Democratic governor contrasted herself with Republican predecessor Susana Martinez, a former…
“It would be extremely difficult, if not unethical, for the state to go forward with the trial at this point without setting our minds at ease that we do indeed have the right person in the courtroom”
