Legal Opinion
State v. Newell
Arizona Supreme Court
Decided April 26, 2006No. CR-04-0074-APPublishedCited by 240 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
RYAN, Justice.
I
¶ 1 On the morning of May 23, 2001, eight-year-old Elizabeth Byrd left home for school. She was wearing her school uniform and carrying a purse or knapsack with long straps. Around 7:45 a.m., a neighbor saw Elizabeth walking toward school with Steven Ray Newell following closely behind. Elizabeth knew Newell because he had previously dated her sister, and the neighbor knew both Elizabeth and Newell.
¶ 2 About an hour later, a Salt River Project (“SRP”) employee working in a field near the M.C. Cash Elementary School came upon someone standing in an irrigation ditch. Based…
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