State of Arizona, Appellee v. Ronnie Lovelle Joseph, Appellant

Summary

The court affirmed Joseph’s convictions and death sentence. It held that permitting a testifying medical expert to testify about the basis for his own conclusions, after reviewing a non-testifying expert’s autopsy report, did not violate the Confrontation Clause. It also held that an Enmund/Tison instruction was unnecessary because Joseph personally killed the victim, that his waiver of mitigation was voluntary, knowing, and informed, and that the aggravating circumstances and death sentence were supported by reasonable evidence.