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Letter To The Editor: Go Vote For Candidates Who Make Positive Difference Such As Judge Alan Kirk

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By Debora Gerads
Alamogordo

Go Vote, and Go Vote for the candidate who makes a difference in your community. One of those people is Municipal Court Judge Alan Kirk. He has served not only the Los Alamos community, but the State as a whole in his work with juveniles.

Judge Kirk was a founder of the State’s Juvenile Justice Advisory Committee, a committee that emphasizes intervention and prevention of crimes by youth. With his background in law enforcement, including serving the community as Chief of Police, he realized that the way to reach kids is not, make the kids come to us and we will fix them. Rather, Read More

Letter To The Editor: I Support Elizabeth Allen For Municipal Judge

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By BILL HARGRAVES
LAPS Board Member
 
Strong knowledge of and experience with the law is an important qualification for a Municipal Judge. As a practicing attorney, Elizabeth will bring legal experience to the Municipal Court. She is practiced both as a defense attorney and as a prosecutor. She maintains currency with legal policy and precedent through teaching of law at UNM-LA.
 
Elizabeth is a strong advocate for youth in our community. Through her work at the Teen Center and as coordinator of the JJAB (Juvenile Justice Advisory Board), Elizabeth developed an understanding of
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Los Alamos Police Blotter: Oct. 26 To Oct. 28, 2018

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LAPD News:

The following information is provided by the Los Alamos Police Department.

Neither arrests nor charges indicate a conviction, and neither means that a person is guilty of the charges filed against them.

TROY A. MARTINEZ

Oct. 26 at 2:12 a.m. / Police arrested Troy A. Martinez, 23, of Santa Fe at the Espanola Police Department on two outstanding Magistrate Court warrants and two warrants from other jurisdictions.

 

TAMARA L. TORRES

Oct. 26 at 3:03 a.m. / Police arrested Tamara L. Torres, 22, of Santa Fe at the Espanola Police Department on an outstanding Magistrate Court warrant. Read More

New Mexico Supreme Court Clarifies Jury Instructions In Criminal Cases

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NMSC News:
 
SANTA FE ― The state Supreme Court Thursday clarified how juries are to deliberate in certain cases where jurors are deadlocked and unable to reach a verdict on a criminal charge.
 
The decision by the state’s highest court allows an Albuquerque man, Kelson Lewis, to be retried on a felony child sex charge. As part of its ruling, the Supreme Court adopted a new approach to instructions given to juries for deliberating when there is a lesser offense contained in a more serious charge against a defendant.
 
The justices said a jury must unanimously find a defendant not guilty
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Letter To The Editor: Re-Elect Alan S. Kirk For Los Alamos Municipal Judge

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By Rita C. Sánchez 
Los Alamos Teacher

I would like to encourage you to vote to re-elect Judge Alan S. Kirk. Alan is running for his sixth term as Municipal Judge in Los Alamos County.

My association with Coach Kirk has mainly been where kids are concerned.

The Governor of New Mexico appointed Judge Kirk to the Juvenile Advisory Council for the Children, Youth and Families Department. During this time, he was instrumental in the establishment of our own JJAB; Los Alamos Juvenile Justice Advisory Board. JJAB focuses on prevention and intervention.

Jude Kirk also was appointed to the National Read More

Letter To The Editor: Please Vote … And Please Vote For Judge Alan Kirk!

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By Linda and Paul Daly
Los Alamos

We hope our community will join us in re-electing Judge Alan Kirk as our Municipal Court Judge for a sixth term. He’s served our community extremely well over the past 60 years, first as Police Chief and then, for 20 plus years, as our judge.

Kirk was one of the founders of the Juvenile Justice Advisory Board and has served as its chair for over 16 years. Our JJAB is a benchmark and a model program for other communities. The Los Alamos JJAB has a particular emphasis on prevention programs for youth, as well as intervention.

Kirk is known for saying, “Take the programs to Read More

FBI: Mescalero Apache Man Gets 18 Months In Prison

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 FBI News:
 
ALBUQUERQUE ― Timothy Gregg Enjady, 54, an enrolled member of the Mescalero Apache Nation who resides in Mescalero, was sentenced Wednesday in Federal Court in Las Cruces, to 18 months in prison for his conviction on an assault charge.
 
Enjady will be on supervised release for two years after completing his prison sentence.
 
The BIA arrested Enjady in August 2017, on a criminal complaint charging him with assaulting a Mescalero Apache woman June 7, 2017, on the Mescalero Apache Indian Reservation in Otero County. According to the complaint, Enjady
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Letter To The Editor: Elizabeth Allen Represents A Fresh Vision As Municipal Judge

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By PHILIP GURSKY
Los Alamos

As we reach the end of the 2018 election season, I invite local voters to consider our local Municipal Judge’s election. The current Municipal Judge has long sat in judgment of residents appearing in Municipal Court and been the leader of the direction of municipal justice in our town. It goes without saying that Judge Kirk has put in thousands of hours of service over the last decades and deserves our respect and thanks.

However, in the demanding and changing times in our community and country, to represent the needs and views of an increasingly new and younger community Read More

Justice Chávez: Constitutional Amendment No. 1 Could Streamline Appeal, Save Money

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By Retired Supreme Court Justice Edward Chávez

New Mexico voters can lay the groundwork for the speedier resolution of certain legal matters and save taxpayer money by adopting Constitutional Amendment No. 1 on the general election ballot.

The proposed amendment would authorize the Legislature to adjust or streamline the appeals process by enacting a statute – passing a bill and having it signed by the governor — rather than changing the state constitution.

By itself, approval of the constitutional amendment will not alter which court hears an appeal. Those decisions would be left Read More

Los Alamos Police Blotter: Oct. 17 To Oct. 23, 2018

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LAPD News:

The following information is provided by the Los Alamos Police Department.

Neither arrests nor charges indicate a conviction, and neither means that a person is guilty of the charges filed against them.

MATHEW T. RUYBAL

Oct. 17 at 4:46 p.m. / Police arrest Mathew T. Ruybal, 27, of Santa Fe in Santa Fe on an outstanding District Court warrant.

 

CHADRICK CALVIN CAVANAUGH

Oct. 19 at 12:03 p.m. / Police arrest Chadrick Calvin Cavanaugh, 34, of Rio Rancho at Overlook Park in White Rock and charge him with the unlawful taking of a motor vehicle and resisting/evading/obstructing a peace Read More