STATE v. CROPPER

No. CR-08-0116-AP.

225 P.3d 579 (2010)

STATE of Arizona, Appellee, v. Leroy D. CROPPER, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Arizona, En Banc.

March 11, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Terry Goddard, Arizona Attorney General By Kent E. Cattani, Chief Counsel, Criminal Appeals/Capital Litigation Section, Jeffrey A. Zick, Assistant Attorney General, Melissa A. Parham, Assistant Attorney General, Phoenix, Attorneys for State of Arizona.

Bruce Peterson, Office of the Legal Advocate By Kerri L. Chamberlin, Deputy Legal Advocate, Phoenix, Attorneys for Leroy D. Cropper.


OPINION

RYAN, Justice.

¶ 1 Leroy D. Cropper pled guilty to first degree murder in 1999 for the 1997 killing of an Arizona Department of Corrections officer.1 A Maricopa County judge determined that Cropper should be sentenced to death for the murder and an automatic appeal followed. See State v. Cropper (Cropper I), 205 Ariz. 181, 183-84 ¶ 12, 68 P.3d...

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