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…
DA decries light sentence for ex-deputy in molestation case By Justin Horwath | The New Mexican Jan 3, 2018 Updated Jan 4, 2018 (…) Dustin Bingham is pictured in May in District Court. Luis Sánchez Saturno/New Mexican file photo Two teenage girls who were sexually molested by Dustin Bingham, an extended family member and former…
Taos NM – Deputy Eighth Judicial District Attorney announced that all charges against Frankie Giron are being dismissed. A three-day jury trial had been scheduled later this month on criminal sexual penetration charges. Santa Fe defense attorney Steve Aarons explained that his client had told police when he was arrested that the woman had consented…
By Vic Vela / Journal Staff Writer SANTA FE, N.M. — A Rio Arriba County vehicular homicide case will survive, even though the truck allegedly driven by the defendant in a fatal Memorial Day weekend crash did not. A judge Thursday denied a defense motion to dismiss charges against Juan de Dios Cordova, despite his…
State will not retry Shaun Wilkins, charged as the triggerman in four gruesome Torreon murders By Joline Gutierrez Krueger JGLENN@ABQTRIB.COM Five years have passed since Shaun Wilkins was led away in handcuffs and charged as the triggerman in the Torreon cabin killings, one of the most horrifying multiple murders in recent New Mexico history. Most…
