Amendment to expand pretrial detention advances in House

Rep. Andrea Reeb, R-Clovis, speaks with visitors Wednesday in the New Mexico House of Representatives before the chamber begins its work for the day. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)SANTA FE — Legislation to make more defendants eligible for pretrial detention survived its first test in the House on Wednesday — just barely — as New Mexico lawmakers weighed strategies for addressing the state's high violent-crime rate.The proposal, House Joint Resolution 9, would ask voters to