Legal Opinion
State v. Wood
Arizona Supreme Court
Decided October 11, 1994No. CR-91-0233-APPublishedCited by 80 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
FELDMAN, Chief Justice.
A Pima County jury convicted Joseph Rudolph Wood, III (“Defendant”) of two counts of first degree murder and two counts of aggravated assault. The trial court sentenced him to death for each murder and to imprisonment for the assaults. Appeal to this court from the death sentences is automatic. Ariz.R.Crim.P. 26.15, 31.2(b). We have jurisdiction under Ariz. Const, art. VI, § 5(3), AR.S. §§ 13-4031 and 13-4033(A), and Ariz.R.Crim.P. 31.
FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY
Defendant shot and killed his estranged girlfriend Debra Dietz (“Debra”) and her father Eugene Dietz…
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