State of Arizona, Appellee v. Wayne Benoit Prince, Appellant

Summary

The court affirmed Prince’s death sentence after rejecting his constitutional and procedural challenges to the second penalty proceeding, jury selection, evidentiary rulings, jury instructions, alleged prosecutorial misconduct, and victim-impact evidence. It held that the second penalty jury was permissible, that any error concerning the gun expert’s prior testimony was nonprejudicial, and that the statutory aggravating circumstances were supported beyond a reasonable doubt. On independent review, the court found two aggravating factors and mitigation insufficiently substantial to warrant leniency.