Quintana v. New Mexico Department of Corrections

How courts have described this case

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• holding that Section 12-1-8 applies to rules of construction governing the compilation of statutes and is not dispositive
• holding that parole eligibility for an “inmate . .. sentenced for committing a crime after July 1, 1979, [and] serving ... a capital life sentence ... is thirty years”
• holding that parole eligibility for an “inmate . . . sentenced for committing a crime after July 1, 1979, [and] serving . . . a capital life sentence . . . is thirty years”
• the legislature is presumed not to enact one law that is inconsistent with another existing law
• “[Provisions of a statute, together with other statutes in pari materia, must be read together to ascertain the legislative intent.”
• in interpreting a statute, reviewing court presumes the legislature was informed as to existing law

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