State v. Mulalley

CAMERON, Justice.

On 23 July 1979, defendant Michael James Mulalley was convicted by a jury of two violations of A.R.S. § 13-1206, dangerous or deadly assault by a prisoner. Immediately after the guilty verdicts, the trial court followed the mandatory sentencing provision of A.R.S. § 13-1206 and sentenced Mulalley to two life terms. As required by the statute, these sentences were made to run consecutively to each other and to all other sentences the defendant was then serving. Mulalley now appeals both conviction and sentence. We have jurisdiction pursuant to A.R.S. § 13-4031.

The defendant…