"There’s no such thing as first-degree murder if the victim is alive — if there’s no body, then there’s no murder," said longtime Santa Fe defense attorney Dan Marlowe.
Albuquerque has its high murder rate and the continual argument about pretrial detention and its effect on repeat offenders—or not. Fortunately we don’t suffer that problem. Ours is smaller, more
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Investigators work early Saturday evening at the site where Albuquerque police fatally shot a man earlier in the day near San Mateo and Marquette NE. The Albuquerque Police Department on Sunday identified the man killed as Claude Trivino, 40, of Hernandez. (Jim Thompson/Albuquerque Journal)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. The Albuquerque Police Department has identified a person shot and killed by police Saturday.
Claude Trivino, 40, of Hernandez, was shot by one or two officers near San Mateo and Copper NE after a confrontation Saturday afternoon, police said. He later died at a hospital.
Rio Arriba County Magistrate Court records show that in December a Veterans Affairs doctor signed an order for an emergency psychiatric evaluation of Trivino. The order said there was “a likelihood of serious harm to himself or others and immediate detention was necessary to prevent such harm.” According to the co