Legal Opinion
State v. Maloney
Arizona Supreme Court
Decided January 27, 1970No. 1923PublishedCited by 50 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LAURANCE T. WREN, Superior Court Judge.
This is an appeal from a conviction and sentence of death mandated by a jury’s verdict on each of two counts of an information charging defendant with murder in the first degree of his mother and stepfather. At the time of the homicides defendant was just under 16 years of age.
At a former trial on the same charges, he had been found guilty of murder in the second degree as to the stepfather, and in the first degree as to the mother. Punishment was fixed on the former to a term of years in the state prison, with life imprisonment being assessed on the…
2Cases cited36 opinions
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- Trop v. DullesSupreme Court of the United States · 1958
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3Cited by50 opinions
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