SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A unanimous New Mexico Supreme Court ruling upholds a man's convictions for the killings of two people and the wounding of a third person in Valencia County in 2013.
The justices' ruling Thursday upholds Jordan Hurd's convictions for first-degree murder for the deaths of Wesley Hobbs and his daughter, Amanda, and for aggravated battery with a deadly weapon in the wounding of Patricia Hobbs, Wesley Hobbs' wife.
They were shot at their home in Jarales (hah-RAL'-ace).
Hurd was sentenced to consecutive terms of life in prison for the killings and an additional four years for the other shooting.
According to witness testimony, Hurd and two other men visited Wesley Hobbs to try to sell a stolen motorcycle and obtain drugs. One man left before the shootings took place.