State Ex Rel. Quintana v. Schnedar

How courts have described this case

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• stating that courts may be required to make appropriate order when necessary to safeguard a defendant's constitutional or statutory rights
• instructing courts to presume that “the legislature did not intend to enact a law inconsistent with existing law” and to disfavor “judicial repeal of legislation by implication”
• seeking to harmonize statutes found in different chapters of the New Mexico statutes
• noting state constitutional provision embraces and parallels ideal of federal provision
• noting state constitutional provision embraces and parallels ideal of federal provision
• “The New Mexico Constitution embraces and parallels” the Sixth Amendment’s ideal of providing criminal indigents legal representation at public expense.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).