State v. Viramontes

OPINION

HOWARD, Presiding Judge.

¶ 1 After a jury trial, appellant Samuel Viramontes was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to a prison term of natural life. On appeal, he claims the trial court erred by failing to apply the special sentencing procedures in A.R.S. § 13-703 to determine whether to impose natural life or a life sentence with the possibility of release in twenty-five years, and by considering natural life the presumptive sentence for first-degree murder. 1 Finding no reversible error, we affirm. But because the trial court stated in its sentencing minute entry that…