Legal Opinion
State v. Brewer
Arizona Supreme Court
Decided January 28, 1992No. CR-88-0308-AP, CR-89-0319-T/APPublishedCited by 135 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
CORCORAN, Justice.
Appellant John George Brewer (defendant) pleaded guilty to the first-degree murder of his girlfriend (victim) and was sentenced to death. This automatic appeal followed. See A.R.S. § 13-4033; rules 26.-15, 31.2(b), and 31.15(a)(3), Arizona Rules of Criminal Procedure.
The State filed its own appeal in the court of appeals, challenging the trial court’s dismissal of the first-degree murder charge for the death of the victim’s 22-week-old, unborn fetus. We transferred the State’s renumbered appeal to this court and consolidated it with defendant’s automatic appeal. See…
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