State of Arizona, Appellee v. Isiah Patterson, Appellant

Summary

The court affirmed Patterson’s first-degree murder conviction and death sentence. It rejected challenges to voir dire restrictions, the removal of a juror for cause, the denial of a mistrial, the refusal to give a manslaughter instruction, witness sequestration, and allocution. It held that the guilt-phase dangerousness error and the prosecutor’s corrected misstatement of law were harmless, and that the evidence supported the especially cruel aggravator and death sentence.