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App. 481", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Or. App.", "case_ids": [ 4428412 ], "weight": 2, "year": 1991, "pin_cites": [ { "parenthetical": "\"When [the] defendant was released on parole, the relevant term of imprisonment ended. Expiration of the 180 days did not occur 'during the continuance of [that] term of imprisonment.' \" (citation omitted)" }, { "page": "441", "parenthetical": "\"When [the] defendant was released on parole, the relevant term of imprisonment ended. Expiration of the 180 days did not occur 'during the continuance of [that] term of imprisonment.' \" (citation omitted)" } ], "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/or-app/107/0481-01" ] }, { "cite": "341 Ark. 99", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Ark.", "case_ids": [ 1257714 ], "weight": 3, "year": 2000, "pin_cites": [ { "parenthetical": "\"[T]he plain language contained in Article [3(A) ] ... provides the IAD only applies during the period when a prisoner continues to serve a term of imprisonment.\"" }, { "page": "872", "parenthetical": "\"[T]he plain language contained in Article [3(A) ] ... provides the IAD only applies during the period when a prisoner continues to serve a term of imprisonment.\"" }, { "page": "872", "parenthetical": "\"We simply do not share the Snyder court's concerns that the IAD's requirements can or will be so easily manipulated by the states....\"" } ], "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/ark/341/0099-01" ] }, { "cite": "444 U.S. 37", "category": "reporters:federal", "reporter": "U.S.", "case_ids": [ 11304612 ], "weight": 3, "year": 1979, "pin_cites": [ { "page": "42" } ], "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/us/444/0037-01" ] }, { "cite": "124 S.Ct. 1023", "category": "reporters:federal", "reporter": "S. Ct.", "case_ids": [ 8897517, 9068198 ], "year": 2004, "pin_cites": [ { "parenthetical": "internal quotation marks omitted" } ], "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/us/540/0526-01", "/br/303/1023-01" ] }, { "cite": "540 U.S. 526", "category": "reporters:federal", "reporter": "U.S.", "case_ids": [ 8897517 ], "weight": 2, "year": 2004, "pin_cites": [ { "page": "534", "parenthetical": "internal quotation marks omitted" }, { "parenthetical": "internal quotation marks omitted" } ], "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/us/540/0526-01" ] }, { "cite": "519 U.S. 337", "category": "reporters:federal", "reporter": "U.S.", "case_ids": [ 11595510 ], "weight": 3, "year": 1997, "pin_cites": [ { "page": "340", "parenthetical": "internal quotation marks omitted" }, { "parenthetical": "internal quotation marks omitted" }, { "parenthetical": "internal quotation marks omitted" } ], "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/us/519/0337-01" ] }, { "cite": "528 U.S. 110", "category": "reporters:federal", "reporter": "U.S.", "case_ids": [ 9476159 ], "weight": 3, "year": 2000, "pin_cites": [ { "page": "111", "parenthetical": "internal quotation marks omitted" }, { "parenthetical": "internal quotation marks omitted" }, { "parenthetical": "internal quotation marks omitted" } ], "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/us/528/0110-01" ] }, { "cite": "2002-NMSC-020", "category": "reporters:neutral", "reporter": "NMSC", "case_ids": [ 260754 ], "weight": 3, "year": 2000, "pin_cites": [ { "page": "\u00b6 16" }, { "parenthetical": "internal quotation marks omitted" } ], "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/nm/132/0382-01" ] }, { "cite": "2010-NMSC-038", "category": "reporters:neutral", "reporter": "NMSC", "case_ids": [ 4247309 ], "weight": 3, "pin_cites": [ { "page": "\u00b6 10" } ], "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/nm/148/0500-01" ] }, { "cite": "94 N.M. 517", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "N.M.", "case_ids": [ 1573209 ], "weight": 4, "pin_cites": [ { "page": "520" }, { "page": "1331" }, { "page": "520" }, { "page": "1331", "parenthetical": "\"[W]hen a prisoner is discharged by a sending state, his treatment and rehabilitation in that state is ended and the purpose of the [IAD] loses significance.\"" } ], "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/nm/94/0517-01" ] } ], "analysis": { "cardinality": 707, "char_count": 11462, "ocr_confidence": 0.693, "pagerank": { "raw": 5.061447019797991e-08, "percentile": 0.31862533298273377 }, "sha256": "c278fb3fd538cb0e1891f62d207b9b0e7a5d95d14c4f86b875a998a0fb1e1d1d", "simhash": "1:30a74c15d70ff500", "word_count": 1879 }, "last_updated": "2023-07-14T21:53:59.243869+00:00", "provenance": { "date_added": "2019-08-29", "source": "Harvard", "batch": "2018" }, "casebody": { "judges": [ "WE CONCUR: CELIA FOY CASTILLO, Chief Judge, and TIMOTHY L. GARCIA, Judge." ], "parties": [ "STATE of New Mexico, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Daniel FROHNHOFER, Defendant-Appellant." ], "opinions": [ { "text": "OPINION\nBUSTAMANTE, Judge.\n{1} Pursuant to the Interstate Agreement on Detainers (IAD), NMSA 1978, Section 31-5-12 (1971), the State of New Mexico lodged a detainer against Defendant Daniel Frohnhofer. Defendant requested a final disposition of the detainer, triggering a 180-day deadline for the commencement of his trial. Prior to the deadline, Defendant was paroled in Colorado. When his trial did not commence before the 180-day deadline, Defendant filed a motion to dismiss. The district court denied the motion. Because we conclude that the IAD does not apply to parolees, we affirm.\nI. BACKGROUND\n{2} When the State learned that Defendant was incarcerated in Colorado, it lodged a detainer against him. Defendant responded on January 6, 2009, by filing a request for final disposition pursuant to Article 3(A) of the IAD. This triggered Defendant\u2019s transfer to Curry County, New Mexico, on March 3, 2009. On March 16, 2009, Defendant was placed on parole in Colorado. On July 17, 2009, more than 180 days after he requested a final disposition, Defendant filed a motion to dismiss the New Mexico charges for violation of the speedy detainer limits of the IAD. The district court denied the motion, and a jury convicted Defendant of aggravated battery against a household member, contrary to NMSA 1978, Section 30-3-16 (1995) (amended 2008), and false imprisonment, contrary to NMSA 1978, Section 30-4r-3 (1963).\nII. The IAD Does Not Apply After a Defendant Is Released from Imprisonment\n{3} Defendant\u2019s IAD argument is contained entirely in two sentences at the end of an extensive \u2014 but mostly irrelevant\u2014 recitation of facts and law: \u201cDefendant\u2019s November 2007 motion to dismiss ... triggered the start of the 180 days. The State's window for prosecuting this case thereby expired in May[] 2008.\u201d The State contends that the IAD \u2014 and hence the 180-day deadline \u2014 ceased to apply when Defendant was paroled in Colorado in March 2009. Although we have held that the completion of a sentence in the sending state terminates a prisoner\u2019s rights under the IAD, see State v. Quiroz, 94 N.M. 517, 520, 612 P.2d 1328, 1331 (Ct.App.1980), whether the parole of a prisoner in the sending state renders the IAD inapplicable is a question of first impression in New Mexico.\n{4} We must briefly address Defendant\u2019s reference to a November 2007 motion to dismiss. The record, which begins with the criminal information that initiated this case on March 23, 2009, contains no evidence of such a motion. See State v. Harrison, 2010-NMSC-038, \u00b6 10,148 N.M. 500, 238 P.3d 869 (stating that matters not of record are not considered on appeal). Defendant mentioned this motion at a hearing, but indicated that whatever it was, it was filed prior to the detainer against him. Defendant requested a final disposition of the detainer on January 6, 2009. It was this request that triggered the 180-day deadline. See \u00a7 31-5-12, art. 3(A).\n{5} We turn to the meaning of Article 3 of the IAD, which is a question of statutory interpretation that we review de novo. See Cooper v. Chevron U.S.A., Inc., 2002-NMSC-020, \u00b6 16, 132 N.M. 382, 49 P.3d 61. However, \u201c[a]s a congressionally sanctioned interstate compact within the Compact Clause of the United States Constitution ..., IAD is a federal law subject to federal construction.\u201d New York v. Hill, 528 U.S. 110, 111, 120 S.Ct. 659, 145 L.Ed.2d 560 (2000) (internal quotation marks omitted). \u201cOur first step in interpreting a statute is to determine whether the language at issue has a plain and unambiguous meaning ... [o]ur inquiry must cease if the statutory language is unambiguous and the statutory scheme is coherent and consistent.\u201d Robinson v. Shell Oil Co., 519 U.S. 337, 340, 117 S.Ct. 843, 136 L.Ed.2d 808 (1997) (internal quotation marks omitted). \u201c[Wjhen the statute\u2019s language is plain, the sole function of the courts \u2014 at least where the disposition required by the text is not absurd \u2014 is to enforce it according to its terms.\u201d Lamie v. U.S. Trustee, 540 U.S. 526, 534, 124 S.Ct. 1023, 157 L.Ed.2d 1024 (2004) (internal quotation marks omitted). Unless otherwise defined, we give words in a statute their ordinary, contemporary, meaning. See Perrin v. United States, 444 U.S. 37, 42, 100 S.Ct. 311, 62 L.Ed.2d 199 (1979).\n{6} We begin with the plain language of the statute. Article 3 provides:\nA. Whenever a person has entered upon a term of imprisonment in a penal or correctional institution of a party state, and whenever during the continuance of the term of imprisonment there is pending in any other party state any untried indictment, information or complaint on the basis of which a detainer has been lodged against the prisoner, he shall be brought to trial within one hundred eighty days after he has caused to be delivered to the prosecuting officer and the appropriate court of the prosecuting officer\u2019s jurisdiction written notice of the place of his imprisonment and his request for a final disposition to be made of the indictment, information or complaint....\nSection 31-5-12, art. 3(A) (emphasis added).\n{7} Most courts that have examined the effects of parole on the IAD have focused their attention on the requirement that the person asserting rights under the IAD be a prisoner. Imprisonment necessarily implies confinement. See Black\u2019s Law Dictionary 825 (9th ed. 2009) (defining \u201cimprisonment\u201d as \u201c[t]he act of confining a person, [especially] in a prison\u201d). In contrast, \u201cparole\u201d is \u201c[t]he conditional release of a prisoner from imprisonment.\u201d Id. at 1227. Accordingly, parole by definition ends a term of imprisonment, thereby rendering Article 3(A) inapplicable. See Cunningham v. State, 341 Ark. 99, 14 S.W.3d 869, 872 (2000) (\u201c[T]he plain language contained in Article [3(A) ] ... provides the IAD only applies during the period when a prisoner continues to serve a term of imprisonment.\u201d); State v. Foster, 107 Or. App. 481, 812 P.2d 440, 441 (1991) (\u201cWhen [the] defendant was released on parole, the relevant term of imprisonment ended. Expiration of the 180 days did not occur \u2018during the continuance of [that] term of imprisonment.\u2019 \u201d (citation omitted)); Womble v. State, 957 S.W.2d 839, 843 (Tenn.Crim.App.1997) (\u2018We believe that the plain language of [Article 3] indicates that a \u2018term of imprisonment\u2019 does not include a term of parole.\u201d).\n{8} As the State points out, Defendant\u2019s motion to dismiss relied on Snyder v. Sumner, 960 F.2d 1448 (9th Cir.1992), a Ninth Circuit case with analogous facts. In Snyder, a prisoner was transferred from Iowa to Nevada pursuant to a detainer Nevada had filed under the IAD. Id. at 1449-50. The prisoner was held in Nevada for 426 days before his trial began and argued that dismissal was necessary because Article 4 of the IAD required trial to commence within 120 days of his arrival in Nevada. Id. at 1450. However, the prisoner had been paroled in Iowa on the 120th day. See id. at 1451. The magistrate court judge denied the motion, holding that the 120-day limit was no longer applicable because the prisoner had been paroled. See id.\n{9} In the prisoner\u2019s subsequent habeas corpus action, the Ninth Circuit held that \u201cthe 120-day clock starts to run and cannot be turned off by a grant of parole by the sending state.\u201d Id. at 1453. The court offered two rationales for this result. First, the court believed that allowing parole in the sending state to cut off IAD rights in the receiving state \u201cwould give every receiving state a way to bypass the requirements of the [IAD].\u201d Id. at 1453. Second, the court argued that such an interpretation was contrary to the plain language of the statute because the 120-day requirement could only be extended \u201cfor good cause shown in open court.\u201d Id. at 1454. We find neither argument persuasive. Regarding the plain language argument, we note that the Snyder court framed the question as whether the 120-day limit could be extended. However, as the court acknowledged, the magistrate court judge had denied the prisoner\u2019s motion to dismiss because \u201cthe 120-day limit was no longer applicable,\u201d not because it had been extended. Id. at 1451. As discussed above, we agree with the determination that the relevant language of the statute relates to \u201cthe continuance of the term of imprisonment.\u201d Section 33-5-12, art. 3(A)\n{10} Furthermore, we do not agree that our holding that a prisoner\u2019s parole in the sending state renders the IAD inapplicable gives receiving states a tool to bypass the IAD. Whether for the purpose of helping other states prosecute prisoners or otherwise, we do not believe that states are generally willing to grant parole to otherwise ineligible prisoners. See Cunningham, 14 S.W.3d at 872 (\u201cWe simply do not share the Snyder court\u2019s concerns that the IAD\u2019s requirements can or will be so easily manipulated by the states....\u201d); Dunaway v. Commonwealth, 60 S.W.3d 563, 568 (Ky.2001) (characterizing this rationale from Snyder as \u201cspecious\u201d). Furthermore, we agree with the Supreme Court of Kentucky that \u201c[o]nce the prisoner has been released, the need for protection from detainers \u2014 substantiated or not \u2014 evaporates.\u201d Dunaway, 60 S.W.3d at 567-68; cf. Quiroz, 94 N.M. at 520, 612 P.2d at 1331 (\u201c[W]hen a prisoner is discharged by a sending state, his treatment and rehabilitation in that state is ended and the purpose of the [IAD] loses significance.\u201d). Thus, although it is not necessary to consider policy to interpret Article 3, we believe that policy supports the result we reach today.\nIII. Evidentiary Issues\n{11} Defendant has raised two additional arguments he claims require reversal. The first of these arguments is entirely contained in one sentence: \u201c[t]he repeated reference to \u2018victim\u2019 or \u2018victims\u2019 served to \u2018destroy the presumption of innocence\u2019 in violation of [the Sixth and Seventh amendments of the United States Constitution] and [article II, sections 14 and 18 of the New Mexico Constitution].\u201d This statement is so general we are at a loss to decipher its substance. We decline to address this unsupported single-sentence assertion. See Headley v. Morgan Mgmt. Corp., 2005-NMCA-045, \u00b6 15, 137 N.M. 339, 110 P.3d 1076.\n{12} Defendant also contends that testimony about the \u201ccycle of violence\u201d was improperly admitted through lay witnesses. We agree with the State that this issue was not preserved below, and we therefore do not consider it. See In re T.B., 1996-NMCA-035, \u00b6 13, 121 N.M. 465, 913 P.2d 272 (\u201c[W]e review the case litigated below, not the case that is fleshed out for the first time on appeal.\u201d). Defendant does argue that we should review the matter for fundamental error, and we do not. State v. Cortez, 2007-NMCA-054, \u00b6 5, 141 N.M. 623, 159 P.3d 1108 (\u201cAppellate courts are to exercise discretion to review an assertion of fundamental error only in rare instances and solely to prevent a miscarriage of justice where some fundamental right has been invaded.\u201d).\nIY. CONCLUSION\n{13} For the foregoing reasons, we affirm the district court.\n{14} IT IS SO ORDERED.\nWE CONCUR: CELIA FOY CASTILLO, Chief Judge, and TIMOTHY L. GARCIA, Judge.", "type": "majority", "author": "BUSTAMANTE, Judge." } ], "attorneys": [ "Gary K. King, Attorney General, Santa Fe, NM, Franeine A. Chavez, Assistant Attorney General, Albuquerque, NM, for Appellee.", "Liane E. Kerr, Albuquerque, NM, for Appellant." ], "corrections": "", "head_matter": "2011-NMCA-109\n264 P.3d 739\nSTATE of New Mexico, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Daniel FROHNHOFER, Defendant-Appellant.\nNo. 30,001.\nCourt of Appeals of New Mexico.\nAug. 23, 2011.\nCertiorari Denied, Sept. 30, 2011,\nNo. 33,192.\nGary K. King, Attorney General, Santa Fe, NM, Franeine A. Chavez, Assistant Attorney General, Albuquerque, NM, for Appellee.\nLiane E. Kerr, Albuquerque, NM, for Appellant." }, "file_name": "0643-01", "first_page_order": 679, "last_page_order": 683 }