State of Arizona v. Allyn Akeem Smith

Summary

The court affirmed Smith’s convictions for first-degree murder and child abuse and his death sentence. It held that the State’s pre-constitutional-change acquisition of cell-site location information was saved by the good-faith exception, and it rejected Smith’s challenges concerning notice, due process, counsel, identification evidence, jury selection, evidentiary rulings, jury instructions, aggravating circumstances, mitigation, prosecutorial conduct, and alleged jury coercion. The court concluded that substantial evidence supported the pecuniary-gain and serious-offense aggravators and that the death sentence was not an abuse of discretion.