Channing Turner, Cronkite News Service//January 27, 2011//[read_meter]

The Legislature can retroactively apply a 2006 law that shifted the burden of proof in self-defense claims from defendants to prosecutors, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled Wednesday. The ruling grants...

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