State v. Gonzales

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that a statute “will not govern events that occurred before its effective date” unless the statute states 6 STATE V. HON. MARNER/HANIFFA Opinion of the Court otherwise
• where trial court imposed sentence less than that mandated by statute, state properly appealed under § 13-4032, as sen tence was illegal
• “Unless a statute provides otherwise, ‘it will not govern events that occurred before its effective date.’ ”
• determining sua sponte if new statute applied to ease
• sentence inconsistent with sentencing statute is illegal

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

12 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Dawson
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1990-05-10· cited 142×
• State v. Salazar
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1985-09-17· cited 77×
• State v. Noriega
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1984-10-29· cited 63×
• People v. Schultz
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1990-08-29· cited 62×
• State v. Broughton
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1988-03-01· cited 37×
• Circle K Stores, Inc. v. Apache County
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2001-02-08· cited 24×
• State v. Wilson
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1986-08-28· cited 13×
• State v. Winton
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1987-01-22· cited 7×
• State v. Fallon
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1986-03-11· cited 6×
• State v. Nosie
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1986-03-13· cited 5×
• State v. Griffin
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2002-11-21· cited 2×
• State of Arizona v. Hon. marner/haniffa
  Arizona Supreme Court· 2026-01-30

Cites

3 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. McNair
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1984-09-05· cited 82×
• State v. Coconino Cty. Superior Ct., Div. II
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1984-02-28· cited 64×
• State v. Garcia
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1984-06-18· cited 38×