State v. Wright

UDALL, Vice Chief Justice:

This case came to us on a petition for review of the decision of the Court of Appeals, Division 1, reported at 5 Ariz. App. 357, 427 P.2d 338 (1967). The American Civil Liberties Union filed a brief amicus curiae in support of defendant-appellant’s position. We granted the petition primarily for the purpose of re-examining our position in Rascon v. State, 47 Ariz. 501, 512, 57 P.2d 304 (1936). There, as in the case at bar, the prosecuting attorney, while in the presence of the jury questioned defendant regarding a plea of guilty given earlier in the same proceeding,…