New Mexico Supreme Court· 8/31/1992

State v. Baca

Citations

845 P.2d 762
114 N.M. 668

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noting “wholesale rejection of the duress defense” is unnecessary in cases where a defendant is charged with “a crime closely approaching a strict liability crime”
notwithstanding rule allowing admission of victim’s specific acts of violence, “trial court could very well have excluded the evidence based on its relative lack of probative value”
noting confusion in New Mexico law on the question of whether evidence of a victim’s prior violent acts is admissible unless they are acts of which the defendant had knowledge
“If the evidence supports a theory of the case, a defendant is entitled to instruction on that theory.”
“If the evidence supports a theory of the ease, the defendant is entitled to an instruction on that theory.”
“The issue of denial of the right to 14 confrontation may not be raised for the first time on appeal.”

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Judges: Frost, Baca, Franchini

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