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STATE v. BACA

No. 19366.

845 P.2d 762 (1992)

114 N.M. 668

STATE of New Mexico, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Anthony Ray BACA, Defendant-Appellant.

Supreme Court of New Mexico.

August 31, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sammy J. Quintana, Chief Public Defender, Sheila Lewis, Appellate Defender, Santa Fe, for defendant-appellant.

Tom Udall, Atty. Gen., Patricia Gandert, Asst. Atty. Gen., Santa Fe, for plaintiff-appellee.

OPINION

FROST, Justice.

The State alleged that on June 22, 1989, Anthony Ray Baca and Robert Gutierrez murdered their fellow inmate Luis Valasquez. The State's witnesses testified that Baca and Gutierrez waited for Valasquez in a corridor near the control room at the Penitentiary of New Mexico in Santa Fe. Correctional officers testified that they heard the sound of people running and saw Baca hit Valasquez with a shank (a crude jail-made knife) and saw...

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