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State v. Sosa

Citations

  • 926 P.2d 299
  • 122 N.M. 446

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  • refusing to consider claim that trial court violated defendant’s Fifth Amendment rights by aggravating sentence based on failure to name drug source because argument not preserved below
  • refusing to consider claim that trial court violated defendant's Fifth Amendment rights by aggravating sentence based on failure to name drug source because argument not preserved below
  • “We will not reverse the district court on a matter so uniquely within its discretion [(a Fifth Amendment issue)] when the court was not given an opportunity to consider the issue and make an appropriate response prior to ruling.”
  • same distinction; denial of probation based on failure to cooperate did not violate Fifth Amendment; “we cannot see how failure to suspend a statutorily-prescribed sentence can ever be characterized as anything other than a ‘refusal to grant leniency”’

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Judges: Minzner, Baca, Franchini

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