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- Title: State V. Clark
- Author : New Mexico Supreme Court
- Release Date : January 09, 1989
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 85 KB
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We discuss: (1) denial of Clark's motion to withdraw his guilty plea; (2) the trial court's decision to delay imposing the noncapital portion of Clark's sentence until after the jury deliberations in the capital sentencing proceeding; (3) cross-examination and jury arguments of the State concerning the possible length of a life sentence; (4) testimony of the victim's mother and the State's jury arguments said to have violated the principles of Booth v. Maryland, 482 U.S. 496, 107 S. Ct. 2529, 96 L. Ed. 2d 440 (1987); (5) testimony concerning the costs of incarceration; (6) comment on Clark's failure to testify; (7) the validity of the statutory aggravating circumstance of "murder of a witness to a crime," and the admission into evidence of Clark's prior criminal record; (8) television coverage of Clark's allocution to the jury; (9) claims of reversible error due to the jury instructions; (10) review of the death sentence pursuant to NMSA 1978, Section 31-20A-4(C) (Orig. Pamp. & Cum. Supp. 1988); (11) the proportionality guidelines of State v. Garcia, 99 N.M. 771, 664 P.2d 969, cert. denied, 462 U.S. 1112, 103 S. Ct. 2464, 77 L. Ed. 2d 1341 (1983); and (12) Clark's claim of cumulative error.