State of Arizona, Appellee v. Jahmari Ali Manuel, Appellant

Summary

The court affirmed Manuel’s convictions and death sentence for murdering a pawn-shop owner during a robbery. It held that the judge-change request was untimely, the hotel-room sweep and plain-view seizure of the pistol were lawful, and the alleged prosecutorial and juror misconduct did not cause reversible prejudice. The court also upheld the response to the jury’s sentencing question, the pecuniary-gain aggravator, and the determination that mitigation did not require leniency.