State v. Rossi

GORDON, Chief Justice.

In State v. Rossi, 146 Ariz. 359, 706 P.2d 371 (1985), we affirmed appellant’s convictions for first-degree burglary, attempted first-degree murder, and first-degree murder. We also affirmed appellant’s sentences for the first two offenses but vacated appellant’s death sentence on the first-degree murder charge and remanded for resentencing.

The same trial judge who had conducted the initial aggravation/mitigation hearing held a new aggravation/mitigation hearing on January 17, 1986. Following that hearing, the trial judge once again sentenced appellant to death on the…