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Matthew Wood v. New Mexico
Paid petition · Supreme Court of New Mexico, No. S-1-SC-40305 · judgment June 9, 2025
Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.
Question presented
Where a defendant is not convicted of the predicate offense, does a conviction for first-degree felony murder comport w ith due process under the Fourteenth Amendment? Where there is no evidence that the defendant intended to kill and he is not convicted of the predicate offense, does life imprisonment for a 20-year-old under the felony murder doctrine offend the proportionality principle of the Eighth Amendment?
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Scott M. Davidson
Scott M. Davidson, Ph.D., Esq., LLC
For respondent
Van Edward Snow
New Mexico Department of Justice
Case
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Proceedings
- Oct 14 2025Petition DENIED.
- Sep 24 2025DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/10/2025.
- Sep 22 2025Waiver of right of respondent New Mexico to respond filed.
- Sep 08 2025Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due October 10, 2025)