A Santa Fe jury deliberated for eight hours over two days before convicting a man of murder in connection with the 2023 shooting death of 17-year-old Eduardo Preciado Luevano.

The jury made up of 10 women and two men convicted Edgar Robles Escudero, 25, of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit first degree murder, following a trial that began Monday.

Escudero hung his head as the verdicts were read.

State District Judge Jason Lidyard sentenced Escudero to life in prison — defined as 30 years in New Mexico — on the murder conviction plus 15 years on the conspiracy charge immediately after the verdict was read, according to the District Attorney's Office. The sentences will run consecutively.

Prosecutors said Escudero conspired with codefendant Giovanny Saldivar-Nicolas, 23, to ki

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