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STATE v. AMARAL

No. CR-15-0090-PR.

368 P.3d 925 (2016)

STATE of Arizona, Respondent, v. Travis Wade AMARAL, Petitioner.

Supreme Court of Arizona.

February 4, 2016.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jon R. Smith , Yuma County Attorney, Charles Platt (argued), Deputy County Attorney, Yuma, Attorneys for State of Arizona.

Michael A. Breeze , Yuma County Public Defender, Edward F. McGee (argued), Deputy Public Defender, Yuma, Attorneys for Travis Wade Amaral.

Mark Brnovich , Arizona Attorney General, John R. Lopez IV , Solicitor General, Lacey Stover Gard , Chief Counsel, Capital Litigation Section, Tucson, Attorneys for Amicus Curiae Arizona Attorney General.

Justice BRUTINEL authored the opinion of the Court, in which Chief Justice BALES, Vice Chief Justice PELANDER, and Justices TIMMER and BERCH (Retired) joined.

¶ 1 Travis Wade Amaral, then seventeen years old, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and other charges and was sentenced to life in prison. We consider whether advances in juvenile psychology and neurology in the intervening twenty-two years support a "colorable claim" of newly discovered evidence...

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