The Arizona Supreme Court held that Rule of Criminal Procedure 32.2.a(3) did not preclude Donna Bennett's claim that appellate counsel was ineffective for failing to challenge the sufficiency of the evidence of causation on her felony murder conviction, because her first post-conviction counsel could have raised the…
Arizona Supreme Court, 2006
Published opinions from 2006. The case name opens the case page.
2006 opinions
ArizonaState of Arizona, Appellee/cross-Appellant v. Frank Silva Roque, Appellant/cross-Appellee
August 14, 2006213 Ariz. 193
The court affirmed Roque’s convictions and noncapital sentences, but reduced his death sentence to natural life imprisonment without possibility of release. It rejected challenges to jury selection, insanity instructions, evidentiary rulings, aggravating circumstances, victim-impact evidence, prosecutorial arguments…
The court affirmed Newell’s convictions and sentences, including the death sentence. It held that his statements were admissible because he did not clearly invoke counsel and the interrogation did not overbear his will; it also found no reversible error in the jury-selection, trial, or penalty-phase rulings.