State v. Broughton

MOELLER, Justice.

JURISDICTION

On June 18, 1984, defendant, Preston Broughton, was a prisoner at the Arizona State Prison serving a life sentence for murder and a twenty-one-year sentence for manslaughter. On that date, there was an altercation in the industrial yard of the central unit at the Arizona State Prison, resulting in the indictment of the defendant on two counts of dangerous or deadly assault by a prisoner. One count alleged that defendant assaulted prison guard Donald Hoefer; the other count alleged that he assaulted his fellow prisoner Floyd Evans. At trial, the court granted…