The New Mexico Supreme Court has issued a non-precedential opinion in State v. Pagan-Rivera, affirming convictions for murder and other crimes in connection with the November 2010 shooting death of eighteen-year-old Dwayne Johnson in Albuquerque. Justice Daniels wrote the opinion.
For more information on the case, you can read this contemporaneous report of the shooting by Jeff Proctor of the Albuquerque Journal, and this story about Pagan-Rivera’s conviction at trial by Jessica Garate of KRQE News 13.