STATE v. TANKERSLEY

No. CR-94-0168-AP.

956 P.2d 486 (1998)

191 Ariz. 359

STATE of Arizona, Appellee. v. Bobby Lee TANKERSLEY, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Arizona, En Banc.

March 13, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Grant Woods, Attorney General by Paul J. McMurdie, Chief Counsel, Criminal Appeals, Christopher E. Avery, Assistant Attorney General, Phoenix, for Appellee.

Richard D. Engler and M. Josephine Sotelo, Chief Deputy Yuma County Public Defender, Yuma, for Appellant.


OPINION

ZLAKET, Chief Justice.

¶ 1 On November 18, 1991, police discovered the body of 65-year-old Thelma Younkin in her room at Yuma's Post Park Motel. She had been strangled, most likely by means of the oxygen tube she regularly used to assist her breathing. There were bite marks on her breasts and face, her right earlobe had been bitten off, and a tooth was discovered beneath the body. The victim's vaginal area was extensively bruised and lacerated...

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