Balderas Keeps Convicted Murderers Behind Bars

Attorney General Hector Balderas
 
AG News:
 
ALBUQUERQUE Thursday, the New Mexico Supreme Court upheld murder convictions in two separate cases argued on appeal by the New Mexico Attorney General’s Office.
 
Albert Tegeda, III and Arnoldo Navarette are both convicted of first degree murder, and will remain in state custody.
 
Although Tegeda had testified at his 2016 trial that he had acted in self-defense, a jury rejected that claim and found Tegeda guilty of the willful and deliberate murder of Celso Martinez. A jury convicted Navarette for the willful and deliberate murder of Reynaldo Ornelas and the aggravated battery (with a deadly weapon) of Danny Ornelas at an incident that took place in Portales on Memorial Day weekend in 1993. In both cases, the Supreme Court agreed with the State that sufficient evidence supported the convictions and that the defendants’ other appellate claims lacked merit.
 
“The New Mexico Attorney General’s Office fights every day to keep the people of New Mexico safe,” Balderas said. “Today’s decisions from the Supreme Court support our conviction of two violent and dangerous criminals, and affirm the hard work of local prosecutors and law enforcement in obtaining these convictions and my Criminal Appeals Division in fighting to uphold them.”
 
As a result of the efforts of the New Mexico Attorney General’s Office and the D.A.’s offices that originally prosecuted these cases, both of these dangerous criminals will continue to serve their terms of life imprisonment.
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