Court delays Shawn Cavasos probation-violation sentencing until Sept. 4

Judge Anastasia Martin postponed Shawn Cavasos’s probation-violation sentencing in First Judicial District Court on July 30, setting the next court date for Sept. 4. The continuance keeps the case open and delays final sentencing for the Los Alamos man.

Cavasos had been scheduled to return to court that day after a July 27 court notice said he would appear before Martin for sentencing following a probation violation. Instead of ending the matter, the July 30 hearing produced another delay and moved the next major step in the case into early September.

The court did not publicly state the reason for the continuance in the available record. What is clear is that the probation-violation case is still active and that the judge has not yet imposed a final sentence.

Cavasos’s name has been tied to the case for months. In a Jan. 10 report, Shawn Michael Cavasos, 35, of Los Alamos, was identified as having been charged in Los Alamos Magistrate Court with criminal sexual penetration of a child aged 13-16. A March 30 report later said a judge granted conditional discharge and three years of supervised probation in a sexual-penetration-of-minor case involving a Los Alamos man. The July 30 sentencing hearing followed that probation status.

For Los Alamos County, the continuance matters because probation violations sit at the point where supervision, compliance, and possible custody consequences meet. A sentencing hearing after a violation is not a routine calendar item: it is the stage where the court can decide whether a defendant remains on supervision, faces more restrictive conditions, or receives additional punishment.

Martin, who was appointed to the First Judicial District Court by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham in June 2025, now has the Cavasos matter back on her docket for Sept. 4. Until then, the case remains unresolved and the outcome remains pending in the First Judicial District.