Carol Sloan
Public Regulation Commissioner Carol Sloan was sentenced today to five years on probation for felony convictions of aggravated battery and aggravated burglary.
Being a convicted felon makes Sloan ineligible to hold office, and Attorney General Gary King filed a petition with the New Mexico Supreme Court asking that she be removed from the position.
“My office petitioned the court for Carol Sloan’s removal based on grounds that she was convicted on April 8, 2010 of aggravated burglary, a second-degree felony, and aggravated battery, a third-degree felony,” King said in a news release. “Today she was sentenced for those crimes which, according to New Mexico law, means she can no longer remain in public office.”
You can read the petition here.
Sloan was convicted of attacking another woman with a rock because she believed the woman was having an affair with her husband. She is appealing the conviction.
She was technically sentenced today to five years in prison – a sentence that was suspended as long as she completes supervised probation and pays $3,500 in fines and court fees.
If Sloan is removed, the governor would appoint her replacement, who would serve until the winner of the November election takes office in January.