Legal Opinion
State v. Drury
Arizona Supreme Court
Decided March 25, 1974No. 2599PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CAMERON, Vice Chief Justice.
This is an appeal from a judgment of the court, sitting without a jury, finding the defendant James E. Drury guilty of second degree murder (§§ 13-451, 13-452 A.R.S.), and from a sentence of not less than thirty nor more than forty years (§ 13-453 A.R.S.) in the Arizona State Prison.
We are called upon to answer the following questions on appeal:
1. Was the defendant’s waiver of a jury trial, based on the prosecutor’s promise not to seek the death penalty, voluntarily and intelligently made when the death penalty was ruled unconstitutional by the United States…
2Cases cited53 opinions
- Schneckloth v. BustamonteSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
- Brady v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
- Furman v. GeorgiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- McMann v. RichardsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
- Lego v. TwomeySupreme Court of the United States · 1972
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3Cited by24 opinions
- Gaston v. HunterCourt of Appeals of Arizona · 1978
- Kindred v. StateIndiana Supreme Court · 1988
- State v. SteelmanArizona Supreme Court · 1978
- State v. RamirezArizona Supreme Court · 1977
- State v. HarrodArizona Supreme Court · 2001
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