State v. Escobedo

OPINION

BARKER, Judge.

¶ 1 The question presented in this ease is whether the failure to impanel a required twelve-person jury is structural error or trial error. If such an error is structural, automatic reversal is required. State v. Hickman, 205 Ariz. 192, 199 n. 7, ¶ 29, 68 P.3d 418, 425 n. 7 (2003). (“[Structural errors require automatic reversal.”). If it is trial error, it is subject to fundamental error analysis, as Defendant did not object to the failure to impanel twelve jurors. State v. Henderson, 210 Ariz. 561, 567, ¶ 19, 115 P.3d 601, 607 (2005). Fundamental error analysis places…