Witness list in UNM athletics embezzlement case has familiar names
The former University of New Mexico men’s basketball staffer indicted last month on a felony charge of embezzling for what the school alleges was his bilking the school out of about $63,000 more than two years ago did not appear in court this week as originally planned.
Instead, as is common for an out-of-state defendant accused of a white-collar crime, 35-year-old Cody Hopkins waived his arraignment on one felony charge of embezzlement and five counts of forgery.
Court documents show his Albuquerque attorney, Paul Kennedy, filed for the waiver of appearance and signed off on his standard conditions of release on Friday – conditions that include Hopkins being released on personal recognizance, being allowed to remain in Texas, where he lives and works at Navarro College in Corsicana, Texas, not consuming alcohol or drugs, maintaining weekly contact with his attorneys and avoiding contact with “the alleged victim or any witnesses who may testify in this case.”
Meanwhile, the initial witness list the state submitted to the court reads like a who’s who from UNM press clippings of the past several years.
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