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Los Lunas attorney, Joshua Sanchez, appointed to Bernalillo County Metro Court judge position
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Bernalillo County Metropolitan Court welcomes a new judge this month.
Joshua J. Sánchez will take the bench on March 15 after being appointed by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham. He fills the vacancy created when Judge Courtney Weaks was elected to the 2nd Judicial District Court last year.
Metro Court spokeswoman Camille Baca said Sánchez previously worked at the Law Offices of Michael S. Sanchez for almost 15 years where he specialized in criminal, juvenile, domestic relations, civil and probate law. She said, since 2007, Sánchez was contracted with the Law Offices of the Public Defender and worked thousands of misdemeanor, felony and juvenile cases.
New Mexico State Judicial Outreach Liaison
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In 2010, Fernando Trujillo, a skinny, kind-hearted 18-year-old with a penchant for mischief, got his driver’s license taken away. He was caught smoking pot in the parking lot of a shopping mall and charged with possession of marijuana and paraphernalia.
The charges came with $150 in fines. Trujillo had just finished high school, and without a job, he did not have the money to pay it. With his fines left unpaid, the New Mexico Motor Vehicle Division suspended his driver’s license.
But without a license, Trujillo could not get a job. New Mexico is a state with large swaths of rural areas, characterized by desert, mountains and mesas, where public transportation is not widely available. Even in Española, the city where he lived, the bus did not show up regularly. Without a job, he could not save up to pay the fines.
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Benoit Jefferson was in a bad place, likely headed to a worse one. The 29-year-old veteran had a tough time adjusting to civilian life after serving in the Army for six years. He was arrested for aggravated DWI in June 2019 after rear-ending another driver at a stop sign and got another aggravated DWI three months later after an officer saw him speeding and drifting in his lane. Jefferson was a distinct threat to himself and others. Prison or worse were on the horizon.
No more. Today, Jefferson is sober and works full time as a nurse thanks to his desire to turn his life around – – and Bernalillo County Metropolitan Court’s Community Veterans Court. Jefferson was recently the program’s 100th graduate in a virtual ceremony. “I got to take a better look inside myself and deal with some things that I was just completely avoiding that I couldn’t overcome alone,” he says. “The progr
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