Archives for 2013

The United States, including New Mexico, has had a growing problem in its criminal justice system. The United States is number one in the world when it comes to incarceration by a wide margin. CNN reports in 1970, state prisons had a combined total of 174,000 inmates. By 2009, they had 1.4 million – an […]

Ronald Fronczek was struck by a vehicle and killed March 6, 2011 while riding on U.S. 70 in Dona Ana county. On August 16, 2013 Reid Burnett, 4, and his mother Kathy Burnett, 34, daughter of bicycle accident victim Ronald Fronczek placed flowers on a “ghost bike” memorial for Fronczek between mile marker 165 and […]

Police officers around the country are now wearing video cameras alongside their badges and guns. Normally, these cameras are required by the law enforcement regulations, however recently a federal judge ordered a number of New York City police officers wear body cameras. The goal is to provide an objective record of “stop and frisks,” which […]

On Monday the New Mexico Supreme Court upheld the murder conviction of the rifleman who shot a young traveler at a border rest stop. This conviction was upheld despite the Court finding that the defendant’s lawyer was ineffective in failing to correct errors in the jury instructions. “In this case, there is no dispute that […]

The Las Cruces Sun News Reports that a bicyclist faces potentially life-threatening injuries in a hit-and-run accident. Police are searching for a red, full-size GMC or Chevrolet pickup truck with possible front damage after a hit-and-run on Valley Drive left a bicyclist facing potentially life-threatening injuries. The bicyclist was located several feet from where the […]