State of Arizona v. Dwandarrius Jamar Robinson

Summary

The court affirmed Robinson’s convictions and death sentences for murdering his pregnant girlfriend and their unborn child, along with related arson and kidnapping convictions. It rejected his challenges to the State’s peremptory strikes, upheld the jury’s aggravating-circumstance findings, concluded that the penalty-phase life-imprisonment instruction was legally adequate, and found no reversible prosecutorial error. The court also rejected Robinson’s constitutional challenges to Arizona’s capital-sentencing scheme and independently found the death sentences supported. No separate opinions were filed.