State of New Mexico vs. Megan Barry

Megan Barry graduated from Benjamin Franklin High School in Silverado, New Mexico, on May 29, 2010. She was 17 years old, and an active and successful student who had received a scholarship to Stanford University. Barry was also seven months pregnant, and was expected to give birth at the end of July 2010. It was her intent to give the…
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State of New Mexico vs. Chris Jenkins, MD

Steve Cole, a retired businessman, committed suicide in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with the assistance of his physician, Dr. Chris Jenkins, a local oncologist. Two months later, a grand jury indicted Dr. Jenkins for coercing or exerting undue influence on his patient to request medication for the purpose of ending his life, a first degree felony under the New Mexico Death…
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State of New Mexico vs. Jordan Sands

At 7:12 AM on June 5, 1999, in Rye, New Mexico, a community of 50,000, a bomb detonated at the entrance of the Choices Clinic, a not-for-profit medical facility providing pregnancy counseling and abortion services. Dr. Jeanne Sands, a physician at the clinic who was arriving for work that morning, and another member of the clinic staff were killed instantly…
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Johnson vs. Hays, Brewster and the White Aryan Separatist Party

Rye, New Mexico, is a city of approximately half a million people. The city has experienced serious economic problems ever since a big computer chip manufacturer that employed thousands relocated to California in 2000. Since then, the city has experienced an increase in unemployment, business failures, crime and racial tension. On November 13, 2001, Leon Johnson, an African American, his…
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State of New Mexico vs. Emma Nussbaum

The City of Sedelia in Cory County is the largest city in New Mexico and reported to be one of the fastest growing in the United States. Sedelia thrives with commerce and industry, new parks and museums, schools, courthouses, shopping centers and institutions of higher education. It boasts a population base of more than 500,000. On November 25, 2004, at…
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