State v. Bolton

OPINION

MOELLER, Vice Chief Justice.

A Pima County jury convicted appellant Daren Lee Bolton (defendant) of kidnapping, burglary, and first degree felony murder for the June 27, 1986, abduction and killing of a three-year-old Tucson girl. The trial court sentenced defendant to thirty-three years for kidnapping, twenty years for burglary, and death for first degree murder. Appeal to this court is automatic. See Ariz.R.Crim.P. 31.2(b);. Ariz.Rev.Stat.Ann. (A.R.S.) §§ 13-4031,13-4035 (1989). We affirm defendant’s convictions and sentences. 1

FACTS

On the night of June 26, 1986, sometime between…