State of Arizona, Appellee v. Abel Daniel Hidalgo, Appellant

Summary

The court affirmed Hidalgo's two death sentences and burglary sentence. It held that the trial court properly denied evidentiary hearings, correctly revoked Hidalgo's self-representation after he refused to proceed on the scheduled trial date, and did not violate his rights by denying a hearing on his request for new counsel. The court also rejected constitutional challenges to Arizona's capital-sentencing scheme and found no reversible error in the prosecutor's penalty-phase remarks or in the aggravating-circumstance findings.