Legal Opinion
State v. Taylor
Arizona Supreme Court
Decided July 8, 1975No. 2500PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HAYS, Justice,
Louis C. Taylor, a minor, was convicted of twenty-eight counts of first degree murder in violation of A.R.S. §§ 13-451, 13-452 and 13 — 453 and sentenced on each count to life imprisonment. From the convictions and sentences he appeals.
The voluminous transcript accumulated through the various stages of this prosecution relates in detail the horrifying sequence of events which transpired at the Pioneer International Hotel in Tucson the evening of December 19 and morning of December 20, 1970, and which resulted in the deaths of twenty-eight persons and injury to many others. The…
2Cases cited35 opinions
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- Witherspoon v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Gallegos v. ColoradoSupreme Court of the United States · 1962
- People v. LaraCalifornia Supreme Court · 1967
- State v. HarvillArizona Supreme Court · 1970
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3Cited by32 opinions
- State v. WaltonArizona Supreme Court · 1989
- Cardwell v. TaylorSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
- State v. ToneyArizona Supreme Court · 1976
- State v. WagstaffCourt of Appeals of Arizona · 1988
- State v. GoldsmithArizona Supreme Court · 1975
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