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…
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…
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…
State of New Mexico vs. Carrie/Kerry Townsend
On November 20, 2013, the body of a homeless woman, later identified as that of Terese Jameson, the mother of 14 year-old Mickey Jameson and a former employee of the Silver Streak Café in downtown Albuquerque, New Mexico, was discovered by Detective Rae/Ray Taylor in a trash dumpster in the alley behind the café. Fingerprints…
United States of America vs. Aaron Halsey
On the morning of December 1, 2012, in the season of Shalako, Zuñi Police were notified that Ernesto Cata, a 12 year-old member of the Zuñi Pueblo, and his best friend, 14 year-old Navajo George Bowlegs, were missing. Cata’s body was found the next morning, the victim of an apparent homicide The initial investigation established…
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…
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….