Rule 10-233 NMRA
Rule 10-233. Notice of alibi; entrapment defense.
A. Notice. Upon the written request of the children's court attorney, specifying as
particularly as is known to the children's court attorney, the place, date and time of the
commission of the delinquent act charged, a respondent child who intends to offer
evidence of an alibi or entrapment as a defense shall, not less than ten (10) days before
the adjudicatory hearing or such other time as the children's court may direct, serve
upon such children's court attorney a notice in writing of the respondent child's intention
to introduce evidence of an alibi or evidence of entrapment.
B. Content of notice. A notice of alibi or entrapment shall contain specific
information as to the place at which the respondent child claims to have been at the
time of the alleged offense and, as particularly as known to the respondent child or the
respondent child's attorney, the names and addresses of the witnesses by whom the
respondent child proposes to establish such alibi or raise an issue of entrapment. Not
less than five (5) days after receipt of the respondent child's alibi witness list or at such
other time as the children's court may direct, the children's court attorney shall serve
upon the respondent child the names and addresses, as particularly as known to the
children's court attorney, of the witnesses the state proposes to offer in rebuttal to
discredit the respondent child's alibi or claim of entrapment at the adjudicatory hearing.
C. Continuing duty to give notice. Both the respondent child and the children's
court attorney shall be under a continuing duty to promptly disclose the names and
addresses of additional witnesses which come to the attention of either party
subsequent to filing their respective witness lists as provided in this rule.
D. Failure to give notice. If a respondent child fails to serve a copy of such notice
as herein required, the children's court may exclude evidence offered by the respondent
child for the purpose of proving an alibi, except the testimony of the respondent child. If
such notice is given by a respondent child, the children's court may exclude the
testimony of any witness offered by the respondent child for the purpose of proving an
alibi or entrapment if the name and address of such witness was known to respondent
child or the respondent child's attorney but was not stated in such notice. If the
children's court attorney fails to file a list of witnesses and serve a copy on the
respondent child as provided in this rule, the children's court may exclude evidence
offered by the state to contradict the respondent child's alibi or entrapment evidence. If
notice is given by the children's court attorney, the children's court may exclude the
testimony of any witnesses offered by the children's court attorney for the purpose of
contradicting the defense of alibi or entrapment if the name and address of such witness
is known to the children's court attorney but was not stated in such notice. For good
cause shown the children's court may waive the requirements of this rule.
E. Notice inadmissible. The fact that a notice of alibi was given or anything
contained in such notice shall not be admissible as evidence in the adjudicatory
hearing.