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this week’s edition

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

This week’s edition covers cases decided since the start of August: After a summer’s drought of relevant favorable case law, the dry snap appears to be broken. Leading off this edition is the Arizona Supreme Court’s decision in State v. Gary Wayne Snelling. The sentencing jury found only one aggravator, “that Snelling murdered Curtis in an especially cruel manner” as the victim was strangled to death. ?Absent any evidence of defensive injuries, a struggle, or pleas for help, the record shows only that [the victim] was suddenly confronted by an assailant who promptly strangled her to death.? ?Strangulations are not per se physically cruel absent specific evidence that the victim consciously suffered physical pain...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on August 16, 2010 (boomark / email).