State v. Moore

OPINION

BALES, Justice.

¶ 1 This mandatory appeal is from a jury’s determination that Julius Jarreau Moore should be sentenced to death for two of the three murders for which he was convicted. We have jurisdiction under Article 6, Section 5(3), of the Arizona Constitution and A’izona Revised Statutes (“AR.S.”) section 13A031 (2001).

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

¶2 In November 1999, Delia Ramos and Sergio Mata were selling crack cocaine from a small rental house in which they lived on East Yale Street in Phoenix. 1 Delia’s brother Guadalupe Ramos lived with the couple.

¶ 3 On November 15,…