New Mexico Supreme Court· 4/19/1983
State v. Chavez
Citations
- 661 P.2d 887
- 99 N.M. 609
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- holding that a defendant, convicted of felony murder for killing a store patron during an armed robbery, was not entitled to self defense claim
- defining conspiracy as a common design or agreement to accomplish an unlawful purpose or a lawful purpose by unlawful means
- “defendant who provokes an encounter ... cannot avail himself of the claim that he was acting in self-defense”
- conspiracy is defined “as a common design or agreement to accomplish an unlawful purpose or a lawful purpose by unlawful means.”
- self-defense instruction requires evidence to support a finding that the defendant was put in fear, that the killing resulted from that fear, and that the defendant acted as a reasonable person would have under the circumstances
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Judges: Federici, Payne, Stowers
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14 cases in this archive cite this case.
- State v. ApodacaNew Mexico Supreme Court· 1994-11-16· cited 307×
- State v. LopezNew Mexico Supreme Court· 1999-12-28· cited 86×
- State v. AbeytaNew Mexico Supreme Court· 1995-07-20· cited 71×
- State v. LuceroNew Mexico Supreme Court· 1998-11-25· cited 55×
- State v. JacobsNew Mexico Court of Appeals· 1985-05-21· cited 48×
- State v. HernandezNew Mexico Court of Appeals· 1986-04-24· cited 48×
- State v. BankertNew Mexico Supreme Court· 1994-05-02· cited 47×
- State v. NiewiadowskiNew Mexico Court of Appeals· 1995-06-29· cited 30×
- State v. VernonNew Mexico Supreme Court· 1993-11-16· cited 21×
- State v. ChavezNew Mexico Court of Appeals· 2021-10-01· cited 11×
- Matter of Ruben O.New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1995-04-20· cited 8×
- Montoya v. LytleTenth Circuit· 2002-11-20· cited 4×
- State v. VasquezNew Mexico Court of Appeals· 2023-12-04· cited 3×
- State v. HerreraNew Mexico Court of Appeals· 2023-06-01
Cites
7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.
- State v. HarrisonNew Mexico Supreme Court· 1977-05-19· cited 76×
- State v. DeatonNew Mexico Supreme Court· 1964-03-30· cited 33×
- State v. ThoreenNew Mexico Court of Appeals· 1978-02-28· cited 31×
- State v. McCallumNew Mexico Court of Appeals· 1975-03-26· cited 23×
- State v. NajarNew Mexico Court of Appeals· 1980-02-19· cited 17×
- State v. DresselNew Mexico Court of Appeals· 1973-07-25· cited 16×
- State v. MontanoNew Mexico Court of Appeals· 1980-11-18· cited 14×
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