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Feb 13, 2023

Arizona rancher denies killing Mexican shot dead by border

The lawyer for an Arizona rancher being held on $1 million bond says her client did not shoot and kill the Mexican man whose body was found on his property last month near the U.S.-Mexico border, but earlier that day fired warning shots at smugglers carrying AK-47 rifles and big backpacks on his land.

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Feb 6, 2023

Arizona rancher held on $1M bond in killing near US border

A rancher who lives near Arizona's border with Mexico is being held on a charge of first-degree murder in last week's fatal shooting of a man tentatively identified as a Mexican citizen. His bail was set at $1 million.

court, trial, Hobbs, commission
Dec 5, 2022

Trial date delayed again for man accused of killing 9, prosecutors seeking death penalty

The trial of a man accused of fatally shooting nine people in the Valley over an 11-month span has been pushed back again, this time to February 2024.

Nov 8, 2022

New trial denied for man convicted of killing Tucson girl

A judge has denied a new trial for a man convicted in the first of two murder cases in Tucson.

Oct 3, 2022

Bench trial for a man accused of killing 2 women in Phoenix

PHOENIX (AP) — The state is going to seek the death penalty if a man is found guilty of sexually attacking and fatally stabbing two young women in separate killings nearly 30 years ago near a metro Phoenix canal system.

May 18, 2020

Supreme Court refuses to hear Arizona ‘double jeopardy’ case

The U.S. Supreme Court has rebuffed a bid by Attorney General Mark Brnovich to rule that prosecutors are entitled to multiple attempts to convict someone of first-degree murder even after a jury effectively has found the charge has no legal merit.

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Mar 5, 2020

Court says misapplied law allows killers chance at parole

Some erroneous words used by judges 25 years ago could possibly result in the release of nearly 300 people who the law said should have been incarcerated for the rest of their lives.

Dec 16, 2019

Brnovich asks U.S. Supreme Court to overrule AZ justices in murder case

Attorney General Mark Brnovich wants the U.S. Supreme Court to rule that prosecutors are entitled to multiple attempts to convict someone of first-degree murder even after a jury effectively has found the charge has no legal merit.

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