New Mexico court affirms sentencing in 2011 triple killings
August 2, 2021 GMT
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) The New Mexico Supreme Court is upholding the sentencing of a man who, as a teen, killed three members of a family with a large pickax.
The high court announced in a news release Monday that it determined Nicholas Ortiz’s constitutional rights were not violated because he was sentenced as an adult for three first-degree murder convictions.
Ortiz’s attorneys argued that since he was 16 at the time of the crimes, Ortiz should have had an “amenability hearing” to see if he was open to some sort of juvenile rehabilitation.
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