State v. Leslie

How courts have described this case

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

• remanding for a new trial after judge had telephone conversations with the victim’s relatives prior to capital sentencing
• after the jury found defendant guilty but before sentencing, the judge solicited contact with the victim’s relatives; held: contact with the victim’s relatives necessitated the judge’s disqualification from the proceedings
• after the jury found defendant guilty but before sentencing, the judge solicited contact with the victim's relatives; held: contact with the victim's relatives necessitated the judge's disqualification from the proceedings
• no abuse of discretion for trial judge to grant new trial pursuant to preamendment A.R.S. § 13-703(B) after original trial judge was disqualified

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Leslie
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1985-10-09· cited 54×
• State v. Smith
  Arizona Supreme Court· 2002-07-29· cited 35×
• State v. Barker
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1988-03-18· cited 35×
• State v. Thompson
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1986-03-04· cited 16×
• State v. Emanuel
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1989-01-19· cited 8×
• State v. Jordan
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1985-03-19

Cites

3 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Valencia
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1979-10-15· cited 42×
• State v. McDaniel
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1980-09-11· cited 18×
• State v. Salinas
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1981-06-30· cited 10×