SANTA FE, N.M. (KRQE) – A Santa Fe judge who recently presided over two of New Mexico’s most high-profile cases will soon be stepping down.
Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer will retire at the end of May after 15 years in the First Judicial District Court. She has presided over 21,600 cases in her career.
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Those cases included the trial against actor Alec Baldwin for the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of “Rust.” Marlowe Sommer dismissed the case in, which Baldwin was charged with involuntary manslaughter, over issues with some evidence.
She also presided over the trial against Jeannine Jaramillo who lied about being kidnapped, ran from police, and caused a wrong-way crash that left an officer and a retired firefighter dead on I-25.
Marlowe Sommer was appointed to the district court in 2010 by then Gov. Bill Richardson, was elected in November of that year, and has since been retained by voters, most recently in 2020.