State v. Passarelli

OPINION

HATHAWAY, Chief Judge.

Appellant Francis Passarelli was indicted for filing a fraudulent insurance claim, A.R.S. § 44-1220, convicted by a jury and sentenced to the maximum term. The charge arose from an accident in which appellant’s rented truck ran off a curve in the Salt River Canyon, strewing the truck’s cargo down the side of the hill.

Appellant requests a new trial based on the following alleged errors: (1) That a police investigator was not competent to testify as an expert regarding the condition of appellant’s brakes or the cause of the accident; (2) that the front page of a…