STATE of Arizona, Appellee,
v.
Martin Burciaga PORTILLO, Appellant. STATE of Arizona, Appellee,
v.
Mario Marquez TERCERO, Appellant.
Supreme Court of Arizona, En Banc.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
June 29, 1995.
June 29, 1995.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Grant Woods, Atty. Gen., by Paul J. McMurdie, Colleen L. French, Galen H. Wilkes, Phoenix, for State of Ariz.
John M. Antieu, Phoenix, for Martin Burciaga Portillo.
Dean W. Trebesch, Maricopa County Public Defender by Paul J. Prato, Phoenix, for Mario Marquez Tercero.
Lewis and Roca by Edward F. Novak, Cynthia A. Coates, Phoenix, for amici curiae, Ariz. State Bar Bd. of Governors, Ariz. Attys. for Crim. Justice.
Stephen G. Udall, Apache County Atty., St. Johns, Alan K. Polley, Cochise County Atty., Bisbee, Jack M. Williams, Graham County Atty., Safford, Dennis L. Lusk, Greenlee County Atty., Clifton, Richard M. Romley, Maricopa County Atty., Phoenix, Melvin R. Bowers, Jr., Navajo County Atty., Holbrook, Gilberto V. Figueroa, Pinal County Atty., Florence, M. Jan Smith-Florez, Santa Cruz County Atty., Nogales, Charles R. Hastings, Yavapai County Atty., Prescott, David S. Ellsworth, Yuma County Atty., Yuma, Kerry G. Wangberg, Phoenix City Prosecutor, Phoenix, Lowell D. Hamilton, Mesa City Prosecutor, Mesa, Tobin Sidles, Oro Valley Town Atty., Oro Valley, Bruce W. Bowers, Phoenix, Ariz. Pros. Attys. Advisory Council Amici Curiae.
Supreme Court of Arizona, En Banc.
OPINION
FELDMAN, Chief Justice.
Defendants Martin Portillo and Mario Tercero were convicted of various crimes in separate, unrelated trials. Over defense objection in both cases, the trial court gave an instruction defining the term "reasonable doubt."1 Concluding that the instruction was not improper, the court of appeals affirmed Tercero's conviction by memorandum decision. State v. Tercero, No. 1 CA-CR 93-0348, mem...
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