HURLES v. SUPERIOR COURT

No. 1 CA-SA 93-0046.

174 Ariz. 331 (1993)

849 P.2d 1

Richard HURLES, Petitioner, v. SUPERIOR COURT of the State of Arizona, In and For the COUNTY OF MARICOPA; the Honorable Ruth H. Hilliard, a judge thereof, Respondent Judge, STATE of Arizona, ex rel. Richard ROMLEY, Maricopa County Attorney, Real Party in Interest.

Court of Appeals of Arizona, Division 1, Department D.

April 1, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michelle R. Hamilton, Phoenix, for petitioner.

Richard M. Romley, Maricopa County Atty. by Arthur Hazelton, Deputy County Atty., Phoenix, for real party in interest.

Grant Woods, Atty. Gen. by Colleen L. French, Asst. Atty. Gen., Phoenix, for respondent.


OPINION

FIDEL, Chief Judge.

This petition for special action presents a significant threshold question of standing, which we publish this order to address.

The petition arises from a first degree murder prosecution in which the State seeks the death penalty.1 The defendant petitioner is indigent and represented by appointed counsel. Defendant maintains that he is entitled to two lawyers, not one, in defending a capital...

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