Arizona Supreme Court· 12/18/1980

State v. Bishop

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622 P.2d 478
127 Ariz. 531
1980 Ariz. LEXIS 304

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mitigating factors of no prior criminal record and low intelligence not sufficiently substantial to call for leniency in sentencing for murder committed in especially heinous, cruel or depraved manner
mitigating factors of no prior criminal record and low intelligence not sufficiently substantial to call for leniency in sentencing for murder committed in especially heinous, cruel or depraved manner
below average intelligence, fact that defendant completed only the sixth grade and lack of prior criminal record were not sufficiently substantial to call for leniency
below average intelligence, fact that defendant completed only the sixth grade and lack of prior criminal record were not sufficiently substantial to call for leniency
one aggravating circumstance and mitigating circumstances that defendant had no prior criminal record and cooperation with the police were not enough to warrant leniency
error harmless because defendant subsequently was able to have the issue of aggravating circumstances presented and reviewed by the trial court

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Judges: Holohan, Struckmeyer, Hays, Cameron, Gordon

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