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Habeas Corpus Granted; State Used Wrong Standard to Convict

The U.S. Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, reversing the federal district
court of New Mexico, held that a New Mexico prisoner was wrongly convicted
of child abuse when the state court applied the civil negligence standard
rather than the criminal negligence standard to secure conviction.
Valente Lopez was convicted of ...

 

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