N.M. Stat. § 31-16-8
Payment of costs, expenses and attorney fees.
A. Payments of costs, expenses and attorney fees under the Indigent Defense Act
shall be made from:
(1)
funds appropriated to the supreme court with respect to habeas corpus
matters initiated in that court; and
(2)
funds appropriated to the district court with respect to all stages of
proceedings initiated in the district court.
B. The court assigning counsel under the Indigent Defense Act shall pay costs,
including the costs of transcripts where appropriate, shall reimburse counsel for direct
expenses the court determines to have been properly incurred by him and shall pay to
counsel fees:
(1)
for services in magistrate courts and district courts where the proceedings
are terminated prior to trial in the district court, a sum fixed by the court at not less than
one dollar ($1.00) nor more than three hundred dollars ($300);
(2)
for services in magistrate courts and district courts which include trial in
the district court and, where appropriate, filing notice of appeal, a sum fixed by the court
at not less than one dollar ($1.00) nor more than four hundred dollars ($400);
(3)
for services in postconviction remedy proceedings in the district court, a
sum fixed by the court at not less than one dollar ($1.00) nor more than one hundred
fifty dollars ($150);
(4)
for services in prosecuting any appeal or review in the court of appeals or
the supreme court, a sum fixed by the court at not less than one dollar ($1.00) nor more
than five hundred dollars ($500);
(5)
for services in habeas corpus proceedings in the supreme court, a sum
fixed by the court at not less than one dollar ($1.00) nor more than one hundred fifty
dollars ($150); and
(6)
for services in any case involving a capital offense, a sum fixed by the
court.