State v. Giraudo

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that “dismissal for failure to timely prosecute is a final judgment” that the State may appeal to the district court
• stating that the State’s substantive right to appeal under the New Mexico Constitution “requires only a final judgment”
• holding the state is not a “person” for purposes of NMSA 1978, Section 34-8A-6(C) (1981), which entitled “any person” to appeal a judgment by the metropolitan court in a criminal action
• recognizing the right of the State to appeal from metropolitan court’s order of dismissal

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).