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| 28 | 28 | | HOUSE BILL 278 |
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| 29 | 29 | | 57TH LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - FIRST SESSION, 2025 |
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| 30 | 30 | | INTRODUCED BY |
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| 31 | 31 | | Nicole Chavez |
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| 32 | 32 | | AN ACT |
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| 33 | 33 | | RELATING TO CRIME; EXCLUDING FROM THE CRIME OF VOLUNTARY |
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| 34 | 34 | | MANSLAUGHTER KILLINGS COMMITTED DURING THE ESCAPE FROM THE |
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| 35 | 35 | | COMMISSION OF A FELONY AND WHILE RESISTING LAWFUL ARREST. |
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| 36 | 36 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO: |
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| 37 | 37 | | SECTION 1. Section 30-2-3 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1963, |
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| 38 | 38 | | Chapter 303, Section 2-3, as amended) is amended to read: |
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| 39 | 39 | | "30-2-3. MANSLAUGHTER.--Manslaughter is the unlawful |
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| 40 | 40 | | killing of a human being without malice. |
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| 41 | 41 | | A. Voluntary manslaughter consists of manslaughter |
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| 42 | 42 | | committed upon a sudden quarrel or in the heat of passion, |
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| 43 | 43 | | except that a sudden quarrel or heat of passion shall not |
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| 44 | 44 | | include any conduct in the course of or during an escape from |
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| 45 | 45 | | the commission of a felony offense or while resisting a lawful |
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| 46 | 46 | | arrest by a law enforcement officer or another person . |
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| 74 | 74 | | Whoever commits voluntary manslaughter is guilty of a |
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| 75 | 75 | | third degree felony resulting in the death of a human being. |
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| 76 | 76 | | B. Involuntary manslaughter consists of |
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| 77 | 77 | | manslaughter committed in the commission of an unlawful act not |
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| 78 | 78 | | amounting to felony, or in the commission of a lawful act |
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| 79 | 79 | | [which] that might produce death in an unlawful manner or |
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| 80 | 80 | | without due caution and circumspection. |
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| 81 | 81 | | Whoever commits involuntary manslaughter is guilty of a |
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| 82 | 82 | | fourth degree felony." |
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