Legal Opinion
State of Arizona v. Shawn Patrick Lynch
Arizona Supreme Court
Decided September 10, 2015No. CR-12-0359-APPublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Justice BRUTINEL,
opinion of the Court.
¶ 1 Shawn Patrick Lynch was convicted of first-degree murder, kidnapping, armed robbery, and burglary. He was sentenced to death for the murder and to twenty-one years’ imprisonment for the other offenses. We remanded for a new penalty-phase proceeding on the murder conviction in State v. Lynch (Lynch I), 225 Ariz. 27, 43 ¶ 89, 234 P.3d 595, 611 (2010). On resentencing, the jury again returned a death verdict. We have jurisdiction over this automatic appeal pursuant to Article 6, Section 5(3) of the Arizona Constitution and A.R.S. §§ 13-755 and 13-4031.
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