Legal Opinion
State of Arizona v. Dauntorian Lydel Sanders
Arizona Supreme Court
Decided September 13, 2018No. CR-14-0302-APPublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
JUSTICE GOULD, opinion of the Court:
¶ 1 Dauntorian Lydel Sanders was sentenced to death after a jury found him guilty of first degree murder and two counts of child abuse. We have jurisdiction of this automatic appeal pursuant to article 6, section 5(3), of the Arizona Constitution and A.R.S. § 13-4031. We affirm Sanders' convictions and sentences.
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¶ 2 On August 31, 2009, Sanders called 911 to report that his girlfriend's child, three-year-old Schala Vera, was not breathing. 1 A police officer went to the home, and Sanders directed him to an upstairs bathroom, where he found Schala lying on…
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