{"id":8986,"date":"2009-11-05T14:49:49","date_gmt":"2009-11-05T21:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=8986"},"modified":"2009-11-05T15:21:34","modified_gmt":"2009-11-05T22:21:34","slug":"justices-mourn-the-death-of-gene-franchini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/11\/justices-mourn-the-death-of-gene-franchini\/","title":{"rendered":"Justices mourn the death of Gene Franchini"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8988\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 120px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8988\" title=\"Franchini, Gene\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Franchini-Gene.jpg\" alt=\"Gene Franchini\" width=\"120\" height=\"160\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gene Franchini<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The current justices of the New Mexico Supreme Court say they were saddened to learn of the death of former Chief Justice Gene Franchini, who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/news\/metro\/052227178820newsmetro11-05-09.htm\">died Wednesday<\/a> while giving a lecture to first-year law students at the University of New Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>Franchini served on the high court from 1990 to 2002, and was chief justice from 1997 to 1999.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was an authentic person with exemplary integrity. His passion for life and the law was contagious,\u201d current Chief Justice Edward L. Ch\u00e1vez, who succeeded Franchini on the Supreme Court, said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe always stood steadfast and was truly a solid anchor for the cause of justice,\u201d said Justice Patricio M. Serna.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJustice Franchini was a real role model and a strong advocate for the judiciary,\u201d said Justice Petra Jimenez Maes.\u00a0\u201cI admired his passion for maintaining the integrity of the legal profession and his willingness to tackle the elephant in the room.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Justice Franchini was a dear friend, a source of great inspiration without whose help I would not be on the court. I will never forget him,\u201d said Justice Richard C. Bosson.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSignificantly, Justice Franchini passed away at the very moment when he was passing the torch to the next generation,\u201d said Justice Charles W. Daniels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The current justices of the New Mexico Supreme Court say they were saddened to learn of the death of former Chief Justice Gene Franchini, who died Wednesday while giving a lecture to first-year law students at the University of New Mexico.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-8986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","category-uncategorized","tag-roundhouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}