State of Arizona v. Bryan Wayne Hulsey

Summary

The court affirmed Hulsey’s convictions and his prison sentence but vacated the death sentence because the trial court improperly prevented him from informing the jury that he was ineligible for parole while presenting future-dangerousness evidence. The court rejected Hulsey’s challenges concerning destroyed evidence, witness compulsion, juror exclusion, other-act evidence, jury instructions, evidentiary sufficiency, prosecutorial misconduct, and the constitutionality of the capital-sentencing scheme. The case was remanded for a new penalty-phase proceeding.