* 1999 – The State of Arizona executes Karl LaGrand, a German national convicted of murder during a botched bank robbery, in spite of Germany's legal action to attempt to save him.

Walker and Stearns were arrested in Arizona for murder.

In Walton v. Arizona,, the Court found that the phrase " especially heinous, cruel, or depraved " was not vague in a murder case, because the state supreme court had expounded on its meaning.

Critics of bite mark comparison cite the case of Ray Krone, an Arizona man convicted of murder on bite mark evidence left on a woman's breast.

Some suspected that Kemper Marley, a man who made millions in the liquor distribution business in Arizona in a partnership with Cindy McCain's father and fraternal uncle, was behind the Bolles murder, but Phoenix police could find no evidence linking him with the crime, and he continued conducting business in Arizona until meeting his own death, cancer-related, on June 25, 1990 in La Jolla, California.

When Adamson refused to testify again, Adamson was charged and convicted of first-degree murder in 1980 and sentenced to death, which was overturned by the Arizona Supreme Court.

From 1993 to 2000 Bruce Long, a staff member at Arizona State University ( later retired ), transcribed several hundred newspaper and magazine articles from the 1910s and 1920s relating to Taylor, his murder, the suspects, many of Taylor's contemporaries and their links to Taylor.

Following the murder ( during the 2011 Tucson shooting, by Jared Loughner ) of the Arizona District's Chief Judge at the time, Judge John M. Roll, a federal courthouse named for him that will serve the District in Yuma, Arizona ( as stated, where court is now held ) has had ground broken for a 2013 completion date.

Category: People convicted of murder by Arizona

Retaliation against his pursuit of organized crime in Arizona is thought to be a motive in the murder.

Major subsequent developments include forbidding the death penalty for rape ( Coker v. Georgia ), restricting the death penalty in cases of felony murder ( Enmund v. Florida ), exempting the mentally handicapped ( Atkins v. Virginia ) and juvenile murderers ( Roper v. Simmons ) from the death penalty, removing virtually all limitations on the presentation of mitigating evidence ( Lockett v. Ohio, Holmes v. South Carolina ), requiring precision in the definition of aggravating factors ( Godfrey v. Georgia, Walton v. Arizona ), and requiring the jury to decide whether aggravating factors have been proved beyond a reasonable doubt ( Ring v. Arizona ).

Since 2006, after the conviction of retired school teacher Harold Fish in Arizona for second degree murder during a self-defense shooting, some CCW holders in the United States have elected to switch from carrying hollow-point bullets, and especially 10mm Auto caliber weapons with perceived higher one-shot stopping power, to carrying smaller caliber weapons.

Ring was later charged with capital first-degree murder under Arizona law.

Robert William " Bobby " Fisher, Sr. ( born April 13, 1961 ) is an American fugitive wanted for murder of his wife and their two children in Scottsdale, Arizona on April 10, 2001.

On July 19, 2001, an Arizona Superior Court state arrest warrant was issued at Phoenix, charging Fisher with three counts of first-degree murder and one count of arson.

The concept of " Miranda rights " was enshrined in U. S. law following the 1966 Miranda v. Arizona Supreme Court decision, which found that the Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights of Ernesto Arturo Miranda had been violated during his arrest and trial for domestic violence.

The trial escalated the political and legal conflict between strict creationists and scientists to influence the extent to which evolution would be taught as science in Arizona and California schools.

* April 4 – Governor Evan Mecham of Arizona is convicted in his impeachment trial and removed from office.

This was verified in Grand Jury Testimony involving the trial Arizona vs Warren Jeffs.

Gideon v. Wainwright was one of a series of Supreme Court decisions that confirmed the right of defendants in criminal proceedings to counsel during trial, on appeal, and in the subsequent cases of Massiah v. United States, 377 U. S. 201 ( 1964 ) and Miranda v. Arizona 384 U. S. 436 ( 1966 ), even during police interrogation.

The Arizona Supreme Court affirmed the trial court's decision to admit the confession in State v. Miranda, 401 P. 2d 721 ( Ariz. 1965 ).

Wyatt Earp, fearing that Holliday could not receive a fair trial in Arizona, asked his friend Bat Masterson, Sheriff of Trinidad, Colorado, to help get Holliday released.

In Arizona v. Rumsey, 467 U. S. 203 ( 1984 ), it was ruled that in a bench trial, when a judge was holding a separate hearing after the jury trial, to decide if the defendant should be sentenced to death or life imprisonment, the judge decided that the circumstances of the case did not permit death to be imposed.

Dowd represented former Arizona governor Fife Symington during the latter's trial for extortion and bank fraud in 1996 and 1997, of which he was convicted for bank fraud.

In this trial 15-year-old Gerald Gault of Arizona was taken into custody by local police after being accused of making an obscene telephone call.

FBI testimony during and after the trial characterized the group's future plans as targeting powerlines to or from the Central Arizona Project Aqueduct, the Rocky Flats Plant, and the Diablo Canyon Power Plant.

* February 5-The first diesel locomotive to pull a freight train on the San Diego and Arizona Railway begins its journey from El Centro, California, on a trial run.

On 2 February 2010, it was reported that Smith would join Kansas City Wizards on trial during their preseason training camp in Arizona, and on 2 March he signed a two-year deal with the club.

State law in Arizona has subsequently been changed, such that the state now has the burden to prove that a self defense shooting was not in self defense, whereas the burden previously, before the Fish incident, was that the shooter on trial had to prove that the shooting was in fact, done in self defense.

A 1991 clinical Investigational new drug trial conducted at the Department of Internal Medicine, University of Arizona Health Sciences Center with afamelanotide ( then known by its amino acid formula-Phe < sup > 7 </ sup > ( NDP )- alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone ) with 28, " healthy white men " who used a, " high-potency sunscreen during the trial " and concluded, " Human skin darkens as a response to a synthetic melanotropin given by subcutaneous injection.

The trial against Vigliotto begun in Phoenix, Arizona on March 28, 1983.

Mr. Liddy, and co-counsel Tim Casey, defended Sheriff Joe Arpaio and the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office in the three-week racial profiling trial, Melendres v. Arpaio, in the United States District Court for Arizona in the summer of 2012.

* Gilbert Public Schools, a school district in Gilbert, Arizona

A court case filed in U. S. Federal court, Arizona district ( REFERENCE: case no.

2: 2011-cv-02036 in U. S. Federal court, Arizona district ruled in favor siding with Scott Bizar resulting Jeff Dee and Jack Herman being guilty of libel and unfair business practice causing unspecified damages to the plaintiff.

In 2007, the busiest district courts in terms of criminal federal felony filings were the District of New Mexico, Western District of Texas, Southern District of Texas, and the District of Arizona.

* Kyrene School District, a K-8 school district in Maricopa County, Arizona

A new Arizona bill allows the Arizona Board of Regents to set up a district on ASU property to collect revenue from local businesses.

Naco, Arizona is a small unincorporated border community some three miles south of the San Jose district of Bisbee.

From about 1877 to 1890, the town's mines produced USD $ 40 to $ 85 million in silver bullion, the largest productive silver district in Arizona.

The Tombstone mines produced 32 million troy ounces ( 1, 000 metric tons ) of silver, more than any other mining district in Arizona.

The town is part of the sixth congressional district of Arizona, which is represented by Republican Jeff Flake.

The Arizona state government attempted to take over the district in 2005 due to mismanagement.

Ajo Unified School District is the only school district in Ajo, Arizona.

It occurs in the Lucky Cuss mine, Tombstone, Arizona ; and from the Grants district, McKinley County, New Mexico.

Geographer Uriah D. W. Meinig defines the core of the Southwest as the portion of New Mexico west of the Llano Estacado and the portion of Arizona east of the Mohave-Sonoran Desert and south of the " canyonlands ", and also including the El Paso district of western Texas and the southernmost part of Colorado.

Stump sometimes was criticized for addressing himself mainly to Phoenix and the West Valley, even though his district included the entire northwestern portion of Arizona.

According to the 2007 National Missionary Baptist Convention of America Journal, there were 14 state conventions ( Arizona, California, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Ohio, Oklahoma, Northwest-Oregon & Washington, Tennessee, Texas ( 2 ), and Washington ), 39 district associations, and over 500 churches as members.

The district had been redrawn and renumbered the 2nd after redistricting, following the 2000 Census, in which Arizona got two additional seats, and was heavily Republican.

Renzi also said he owned more than in northern Arizona through a real estate development and improvement business, in addition to a small vineyard and ranch in Sonoita, Arizona, west of Sierra Vista, in the 8th congressional district, and a home in Kingman.

In 1976, Kolbe ran for the Arizona Senate in a Tucson-area district and defeated a one-term Democrat who had been elected in the national Democratic wave of 1974.

This served him well ; although his district included most of Tucson's Republican-leaning suburbs, the brand of Republicanism practiced in southern Arizona has traditionally been a moderate one.

These early artifacts, excavated by Earl H. Morris in 1931 in the Prayer Rock district of present-day Northeastern Arizona, have been dated to 620-670 CE.

The vote to disband was vetoed by Republican Governor Joseph Henry Kibbey, but the Democratic-dominated assembly overrode the veto, backed by political pressure from county sheriffs and district attorneys in northern Arizona.