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State Supreme Court rules killer’s record won’t be wiped clean
The Arizona Supreme Court decided Nov. 21 to leave intact the criminal record of a death row inmate who died of natural causes before his case ended.
Judicial imbalance
Relatively few private attorneys want to become judges in Arizona
Stagnant salaries and diminished retirement benefits keep private attorneys from joining Arizona’s bench, which is becoming unbalanced by increasing numbers of former government lawyers, said a lobbyist for Arizona judges.
Appeals court grants new hearing in 1988 Tucson double murder
A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that lower courts must consider convicted murderer Richard Harley Greenway’s claim that he was poorly represented in his trial for the 1988 murders of two women in their Tucson home.
Appeals turned away on Arizona farm funds ruling
The Arizona Supreme Court is letting stand a lower court's decision that the Legislature could take $161,400 from agricultural research and promotion funds to help balance the budget.
Court ruling upholds Arizona’s execution protocol
Arizona's protocol for three-drug injection executions has cleared another legal hurdle.
Judge’s ruling: Mills defrauded his business partner
Buz Mills has made it clear he’s ready to spend a boatload of cash on his campaign to become Arizona’s next governor, but eight years ago a judge in Florida ruled that Mills cheated a business partner out of millions of dollars by withholding information about the sale of a company both of them owned.
