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SANTA FE – Despite approving an expedited briefing schedule, the New Mexico Supreme Court has yet to schedule oral arguments in a case alleging inmates faced cruel and unusual confinement conditions during the pandemic.
That has attorneys for the inmate plaintiffs concerned.
The time-sensitive case – spearheaded by the American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico, the New Mexico Criminal Defense Lawyers Association and others on behalf of incarcerated people statewide – was expedited to the Supreme Court by the New Mexico Court of Appeals in November, just as the pandemic was peaking in New Mexico.
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Lalita Moskowitz, staff attorney with the ACLU, said plaintiff attorneys were expecting the arguments to be scheduled shortly after the last briefing in the case in February.
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