State v. Pandeli

OPINION

BERCH, Vice Chief Justice.

¶ 1 Appellant Darrel Peter Pandeli was convicted of first degree murder in 1997 and sentenced to death in 1998 for the murder of Holly Iler. On appeal, we affirmed both his conviction and his death sentence. State v. Pandeli (Pandeli I), 200 Ariz. 365, 382-83, ¶ 94, 26 P.3d 1136, 1153-54 (2001). In 2002, however, the United States Supreme Court remanded the case for further consideration in light of Ring v. Arizona (Ring II), 536 U.S. 584, 122 S.Ct. 2428, 153 L.Ed.2d 556 (2002). Pandeli v. Arizona (Pandeli II), 536 U.S. 953, 122 S.Ct. 2653, 153 L.Ed.2d 830…