State of Arizona, Appellee v. James Clayton Johnson, Appellant.

Summary

The court rejected Johnson's challenges to Arizona's capital-sentencing scheme, the especially cruel, heinous, or depraved aggravator, the parole instruction, mitigation instructions, evidentiary rulings, discovery orders, voir dire, juror qualifications, and alleged prosecutorial misconduct. It held that the sentencing scheme and narrowing instructions were constitutional, any instructional or evidentiary errors were harmless or nonprejudicial, and the trial court acted within its discretion on the remaining claims. The court also concluded that it lacked jurisdiction to review Johnson's separate armed-robbery plea. No separate opinions were provided.