a deadly weapon on Judge Parsons. When the conspiracy to commit assault case was filed, all the judges in the Twelfth Judicial District, including Judge Parsons, recused themselves from hearing the case. Defendant then filed a motion in the trial court requesting that Judge Parsons recuse herself from hearing his other three pending cases. Judge Parsons denied the motion, but certified for interlocutory appeal the issue of whether her status as an alleged victim in the conspiracy to commit assault case required her to recuse in the three pending cases to avoid creating an appearance of impropriety. Defendant filed an application for interlocutory appeal in the Court of Appeals, which denied the application pursuant to State v. Smallwood, 2007-NMSC-005, 1110, 141 N.M. 178, 152 P.3d 821 (<HOLDING>). Defendant then filed his application for
holding that this court has jurisdiction over interlocutory appeals in situations where a defendant may possibly be sentenced to life imprisonment or death holding that the appellate court had jurisdiction to hear the interlocutory appeal on a restraining order and the district court retained jurisdiction to proceed with the trial holding that this court has jurisdiction to hear interlocutory appeals in cases involving a sentence of life imprisonment or death holding that a statute providing for interlocutory appeals to be heard in the court where appellate jurisdiction may be vested by law means that this court has appellate jurisdiction over interlocutory appeals in cases where the sentence of life imprisonment or death may be imposed holding that 18 usc  1959a1 which provides for a punishment of death or life imprisonment or a fine under this title or both id emphases added provides a mandatory minimum sentence of life imprisonment