The State of Arizona, Appellee v. Shawna Forde, Appellant

Summary

The court affirmed Forde's convictions and death sentences after rejecting her challenges concerning publicity, discovery, identification, evidentiary rulings, jury instructions, aggravating circumstances, mitigation, and sentencing. It held that the record supported the jury's findings that Forde was a major participant who acted with reckless indifference to human life and that the death sentences were not an abuse of discretion. The court modified the sentences for armed robbery and aggravated robbery to run concurrently because those convictions arose from a single act.