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STATE v. MORALES

No. 31,360.

236 P.3d 24 (2010)

2010-NMSC-026

STATE of New Mexico, Plaintiff-Petitioner, v. Nicholas MORALES, Defendant-Respondent.

Supreme Court of New Mexico.

June 4, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gary K. King, Attorney General, Anita Carlson, Assistant Attorney General, Santa Fe, NM, for Petitioner.

Hugh W. Dangler, Chief Public Defender, Susan Roth, Assistant Appellate Defender, Santa Fe, NM, for Respondent.

OPINION

MAES, Justice.

{1} The dispositive issue in this appeal is whether a statutory amendment to NMSA 1978, Section 30-1-8 (1963, as amended through 2005), which abolished the fifteen-year statute of limitations for all capital felonies and first-degree violent felonies, applies to crimes committed before its effective date of July 1, 1997. See 1997 N.M. Laws, ch. 157, § 1 (hereinafter referred to as the 1997 amendment). Although...

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