NM Supreme Court overturns Tularosa man’s conviction for drunk driving

NM Supreme Court overturns Tularosa man’s conviction for drunk driving

Wheeler CowperthwaiteFor the Alamogordo News A 48-year-old Tularosa will get a new trial on a felony drunk driving charge after the New Mexico Supreme Court ruled that a juror should have been excluded from consideration because they could not be impartial. In a July 13 decision, the state supreme court overturned Carlos Miguel Mendez’s 2022 conviction for the fourth-degree felony, and sent the case back to district court for a new trial, citing…