(Download) "State V. Trammel" by New Mexico Court of Appeals * Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: State V. Trammel
- Author : New Mexico Court of Appeals
- Release Date : January 01, 1983
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 52 KB
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The Preprosecution Diversion Act, NMSA 1978, Sections 31-16A-1 through 31-16A-8 (Cum. Supp.1983), provides that a person, alleged to have committed a crime, may be diverted "into the preprosecution diversion program and criminal proceedings against the defendant shall be suspended." Section 31-16A-6(B). The Act contemplates a successful termination of a diversion program, see Section 31-16A-8(B), and impliedly, but not specifically, provides that a prosecution is barred if a diversion program is successfully terminated. The Act deals specifically with an unsuccessful termination in Section 31-16A-7 as follows: