SANTA FE — The New Mexico Supreme Court on Thursday issued a decision affirming a Taos man's conviction for fatally stabbing another man outside a Taos County gas station in 2022.

At a jury trial in 8th Judicial District Court in Taos in November 2023, Daniel Robert Chavez was convicted of first-degree murder and tampering with evidence for killing Joshua Trujillo of Taos with a knife outside the southside Speedway gas station in El Prado on July 23, 2022. Chavez was sentenced to life in prison plus nine years.

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