State v. Tucker

OPINION

BALES, Justice.

¶ 1 This automatic appeal is from a jury’s determination that Eugene Robert Tucker should receive death sentences for three murders. We have jurisdiction pursuant to Article 6, Section 5(3), of the Arizona Constitution and Arizona Revised Statutes (“A.R.S.”) section 13-4031 (2001).

I. Factual and Procedural Background 1

¶2 On July 15, 1999, ten days after he turned eighteen, Tucker entered an apartment occupied by Ann Marie Merchant, a woman with whom he had a prior sexual relationship. Also living at the apartment were Ann Marie’s brother, Roseoe Merchant; Roscoe’s…