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Arizona Supreme Court· 3/18/2010

State v. Garcia

Citations

  • 226 P.3d 370
  • 224 Ariz. 1
  • 578 Ariz. Adv. Rep. 4
  • 2010 Ariz. LEXIS 17

How courts have described this case

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  • noting that Arizona law “specifically requires the trier of fact to make Enmund/Tison findings in the aggravation phase.”
  • affording little value to difficult family background because defendant was thirty-nine at the time of the murder and “no evidence linked his childhood experiences to the murder”
  • finding evidence of long-term drug addiction entitled to little weight because no connection to crime or mental function at time of murder
  • holding the trial court did not err by failing to sua sponte grant a mistrial for the trial’s guilt phase where the defendant only moved for a mistrial of the aggravation phase and the risk of prejudice was limited to the aggravation phase
  • allowing case-specific questions in order to \properly probe[ ] beyond abstract juror views on capital punishment\ so long as they \merely asked [whether] jurors ... could consider the death penalty in circumstances in which it is permitted under Arizona law\
  • finding no error when prosecutor asked jurors “if they could consider imposing a death sentence if a defendant had not actually shot the victim” because the questions asked jurors “if they could consider the death penalty in circumstances in which it is permitted under Arizona law”

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Judges: Bales, Berch, Hurwitz, Ryan, Pelander

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