Arizona Supreme Court overturns Court of Appeals invloving man's conviction
February 13, 2010
Arizona: The Arizona Supreme Court has overturned a state Court of Appeals ruling that threw out the conviction of a man for home invasion. The Court of Appeals said that he was entitled to a new trial after it was discovered that only 11 jurors seemed to be polled in the original trial. However, an attorney from the Arizona Attorney General's Office discovered after the ruling that there were 12 jurors on the panel and that the error was a clerical one and not related to the trial proceedings. The Court of Appeals refused to reconsider its decision and so it was taken to the Supreme Court, who then reversed the ruling.[1]
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