Legal Opinion
Garcia v. Browning
Arizona Supreme Court
Decided February 9, 2007No. CV-06-0320-PRPublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
RYAN, Justice.
¶ 1 This case requires us to decide whether recent amendments to Arizona’s affirmative defense and justification laws apply to criminal offenses committed before the effective date of the new statutes. We hold that these changes apply only to offenses committed on or after the effective date of the amendments.
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¶ 2 On December 13, 2004, a Pima County grand jury indicted David Garcia for first degree murder for events that occurred on December 5, 2004. Garcia subsequently disclosed several justification defenses, including self-defense, third-party defense, and crime…
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