State v. Leavitt

SHEPARD, Justice.

This is an appeal from a conviction of first degree murder and a subsequent death sentence.' We affirm the conviction of first degree murder, but reverse and remand for further consideration the imposition of the death penalty.

Sometime about July 18, 1984, the victim was brutally attacked in her bed. She suffered up to fifteen separate slash and stab wounds, some of which proved fatal. Her body had been further brutalized by the slashing removal of her sexual organs. The body of the victim was not discovered until three or four days following the killing. It is clear that the…