State of Arizona, Appellee v. Edward James Rose, Appellant

Summary

The court affirmed Rose’s convictions and death sentences, rejecting challenges to his absence during initial jury prescreening, the exclusion of non-English-speaking jurors, the voluntariness of his guilty pleas, victim-impact evidence, the exclusion of execution-impact evidence, and the constitutionality of the peace-officer aggravator. The court held that the record supported Rose’s knowing and voluntary pleas, that the challenged penalty-phase evidence did not constitute fundamental or abuse-of-discretion error, and that reasonable evidence supported the aggravating circumstances and death sentences.