KERR v. PARSONS

NO. S-1-SC-35421.

378 P.3d 1 (2016)

2016-NMSC-028

Liane E. KERR, Esquire, Petitioner-Pro Se, v. Hon. Karen PARSONS, Chief Judge, Twelfth Judicial District, Div. III, Respondent, and Santiago Victor Carrillo, Diana Athena Martwick, Twelfth Judicial District Attorney, Thomas E. Clifford, Secretary, New Mexico Department Finance and Administration, Commission for the Law Office of the Public Defender, and Jorge Alvarado, Chief, Law Office of the Public Defender, Real Parties in Interest.

Supreme Court of New Mexico.

Rehearing Denied August 15, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Liane E. Kerr, Albuquerque, NM, for Petitioner-Pro Se.

Hector H. Balderas , Attorney General, James C. Jacobsen , Assistant Attorney, General Albuquerque, NM, for Respondent.

Gary C. Mitchell, P.C., Gary C. Mitchell , Ruidoso, NM, for Real Party in Interest Santiago Victor Carrillo.

Office of the District Attorney, Diana Athena Martwick , Special Prosecutor, Matthew R. Wade , Khouldoud E. Pearson , Carrizozo, NM, for Real Party in Interest Diana Athena Martwick.

New Mexico Department of Finance and Administration, Rebecca Barbara Jackson , Paul M. Kippert , Santa Fe, NM, Sheehan & Sheehan, P.A., Barbara G. Stephenson , Leah M. Stevens-Block , Albuquerque, NM, for Real Party in Interest Thomas E. Clifford.

Rothstein, Donatelli, Hughes, Dahlstrom, Schoenburg & Bienvenu, LLP, Mark H. Donatelli , Marc M. Lowry , Maggie H. Lane , Santa Fe, NM, for Real Party in Interest New Mexico Public Defender Commission.

Robert A. Mead , Special Assistant Attorney General, Karl Erich Martell , Special Assistant Attorney General, Santa Fe, NM, for Real Party in Interest Jorge A. Alvarado.

Hector H. Balderas , Attorney General, Brian Parrish , Assistant Attorney General, Sean Cuniff , Assistant Attorney General, Santa Fe, NM, for Amicus Curiae Legislative Finance Committee of the New Mexico Legislature.


OPINION

{1} On petition for a writ of superintending control, we are called upon to review an order issued by the Twelfth Judicial District Court in the criminal prosecutions against Santiago Carrillo. The district court's order held that the flat-fee rates paid to indigent defense contract counsel by the...

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