JURIST

MARCH 24, 2023

The Arizona Supreme Court Wednesday declined to force Governor Katie Hobbs to carry out the death row sentence of Aaron Gunches. Under Arizona law , the court’s role is to issue a warrant of execution that “authorises” the action. Executions resumed last May, and Arizona currently has 110 prisoners on death row.

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JURIST

JUNE 9, 2022

The US Supreme Court Wednesday refused to postpone the execution of an Arizona man. Frank Atwood received a death sentence in Arizona after he murdered an 8-year-old girl in 1984. Hoskinson went missing after she left her home in Tucson, Arizona, to mail a birthday card to her aunt. Atwood died at 10:16am Wednesday.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 28, 2022

An Arizona district court Tuesday ordered former gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake to pay Arizona’s governor-elect Katie Hobbs court fees relating to a lawsuit that challenged the outcome of the November election. The case arose on December 9 when Lake challenged her loss in the race for Arizona governor.

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JURIST

JUNE 13, 2023

Navajo Nation Attorney General Ethel Branch announced in a press conference and confirmed in a Monday interview with ABC 15 Arizona that Navajo law enforcement have found 271 Native Americans in Phoenix, Arizona—mostly of the Navajo Nation—who lost housing due to the closure of sober living homes found to have defrauded Medicaid.

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JURIST

JULY 1, 2021

In a 6-3 decision split along ideological lines, the US Supreme Court upheld provisions of a restrictive Arizona voting law, stating that the provisions do not violate the Voting Rights Act (VRA). Out-of-precinct voting is prevented by Arizona law, which states that ballots cast at the wrong precinct must be discarded.

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Diane Drain

APRIL 20, 2021

Arizona Bill wants Judgment Creditor to get paid before homeowners when house is refinanced (something Arizona law has not allowed since mid 1950s). Concerns about Arizona HB 2617, especially with the amendments: will allow old and new judgments to attached to homesteads. Drain - Phoenix Arizona Bankruptcy Attorney.

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JURIST

JULY 20, 2021

The US District Court for the District of Arizona Friday ordered the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Recovery (ADC) to trial for failure to make agreed-upon progress toward prison healthcare reforms.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

In an opinion by Justice Sotomayor, the court ruled that the Arizona Supreme Court incorrectly held that the 2016 case Lynch v. Arizona was “not a significant change in law” meriting a second post conviction relief application. South Carolina “did not apply” in Arizona.

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Diane Drain

MAY 15, 2021

On January 1, 2022, HB2617 will become the law of Arizona. Your home is no longer protected from your judgment creditors, which will have a devastating effect on Arizona’s consumers, and those hardest hit by Covid-19. The homestead exemption has been an essential Arizona consumer protection law since the beginning of Arizona statehood.

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Diane Drain

APRIL 16, 2022

ARIZONA IS ONE OF 2 STATES THAT WILL TAKE YOUR TAX REFUND IF THIS HAPPENS. By RUSS WILES, Arizona Republic (reprinted for educational purposes only). A bill before Arizona lawmakers, Senate Bill 1222, would change that by exempting federal tax refunds from the list of personal assets used to pay off debts. SHOULD THE LAW CHANGE?

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JURIST

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Seven lawsuits were filed Monday in Arizona against The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) for allegedly covering up sexual abuse in church-sponsored Boy Scouts of America (BSA) troops. The allegations span more than 30 years, ranging from 1972 to 2009. Thanks for your support! DONATE NOW.

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Diane Drain

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Maricopa County, Arizona, Sheriff’s Bidding Requirements at a Sheriff’s Execution Sale of a Judgment Debtor’s “Homestead” Residence. The Arizona statute, which includes the conditions that must be complied with before the Sheriff will even schedule a Sheriff’s Execution Sale of a Homestead Residence, is set forth in full below: 33-1105.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

At the center of the order was Clean Elections USA, a group committed to monitoring ballot drop off boxes in Arizona. Protect Democracy and the League of Women Voters, filed suit in federal court in Arizona, seeking an injunction to prevent further voter intimidation. The US midterm elections take place on November 8. .

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 11, 2022

Share The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed Arizona to execute a man who suffered from severe mental illness and, according to his lawyers, did not understand why the state wanted to put him to death. Shortly after the court rejected Dixon’s final appeal, Arizona executed him by lethal injection. Arizona Department of Corrections).

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ABA Journal

AUGUST 30, 2021

There will soon be a big change for jury selection in Arizona. The Arizona Supreme Court published a rule modification Friday ending the use of…

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Voters across Nevada, Connecticut, Michigan, Arizona, Nebraska and Ohio Tuesday voted on whether to expand or restrict voter access to election procedures. Though there are still unreported votes, Arizona appears poised to reject a law requiring voters to show identification before casting a ballot.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 11, 2023

District Judge has ordered the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry to make “substantial” changes to its staffing and facility operations after determining that conditions in Arizona’s prisons represent an “unconstitutional substantial risk of serious harm” to people in the state’s custody. .

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HowAppealing

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

“Arizona to resume executions after two-year pause”: Howard Fischer of The Arizona Daily Star has this report.

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MAY 30, 2024

After his appeals and his requests for post-conviction relief in state court were denied, Jones went to federal court in Arizona, where he argued that his attorney – who had never been the lead attorney in a capital case – spent too little time preparing for the sentencing phase of his trial.

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Above The Law

JULY 19, 2024

The post Arizona Offers Alternate Path To Practice After Almost Passing Bar appeared first on Above the Law. Practice has many doors, Ed boys.

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CourtTechBulletin

MARCH 24, 2022

Apple launches the first smartphone driver’s license/ID with Arizona Additional states to follow, including Colorado, Hawaii, Mississippi, Ohio, and the territory of Puerto Rico Read more ».

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LawSites

MAY 7, 2021

The Arizona Supreme Court has approved the first three entities to be licensed as alternative business structures, enabling businesses owned by non-lawyers to deliver legal services under the liberalized licensing rules the court approved last August. The two principles are Kent Phelps, an Arizona lawyer since 1996, and Jeffery B.

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LawSites

MARCH 13, 2024

Training kicked off last month in Arizona for a new class of legal advocates who will work at community-based organizations throughout the state to provide free limited-scope legal help to clients in domestic violence and housing matters.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Arizona , the justices considered whether a state procedural rule prevents John Cruz, who was sentenced to death, from obtaining relief on his federal due-process claim in state post-conviction. To answer this question, the court must determine if Arizona Rule of Criminal Procedure 32.1(g) g) purposes.

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The post Arizona Looks To Protect Cops From That Pesky First Amendment appeared first on Above the Law. Because the problem with the killing of George Floyd was that someone was allowed to film it.

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EvidenceProf Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

Similar to its federal counterpart, Arizona Rule of Evidence 405(b) provides that When a person's character or character trait is an essential element of a charge, claim, or defense, or pursuant to Rule 404(c), the character or trait may also.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

Share The Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared sympathetic to an Arizona man who contends that his constitutional rights were violated when an expert witness testified for the prosecution about drug analysis performed by another forensic scientist’s. But Alexander Samuels, representing the state of Arizona, took a harder tack.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 13, 2023

A woman who used medicinal cannabis to treat morning sickness during her pregnancy was placed on Arizona’s Confidential Registry for child abuse in 2019, after her newborn child tested positive for cannabis. .

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LegalReader

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The lawsuit alleges that Arizona has not only usurped the federal government's jurisdiction over border policy but actively prevented civil servants from continuing routine work along the U.S.-Mexico Mexico border.

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EvidenceProf Blog

JUNE 1, 2021

2021), the Supreme Court of Arizona addressed a question of first impression: "whether an appearance of impropriety, arising from a prosecutor's actual misconduct, may be. In its opinion today in State v. Honorable James E. Marner, 2021 WL 2197962 (Ariz.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Arizona , the court ruled in favor of John Montenegro Cruz, a man on death row in Arizona. According to Arizona law, capital defendants who committed crimes after 1993, like Cruz, were (and remain) ineligible for parole. Arizona in 2016. Arizona courts disagreed, so Cruz came to the Supreme Court.

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JURIST

JANUARY 21, 2023

The Office of the Arizona Attorney General (AG) Kris Mayes filed a motion with Arizona Supreme Court to withdraw the requested execution warrant for Aaron Brian Gunches. Arizona currently has 110 inmates on death row, with three executions already completed this year. However, Gunches later filed for withdrawal of the request.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 14, 2022

A jury will soon decide whether an alleged prison gang leader’s documented brag that he carved his gang’s initials into the chest of the then still-breathing man proves that his murder of the man was especially heinous and may justify his execution under Arizona law. Autopsy records show that Nunuha was stabbed 152 times. .

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JURIST

AUGUST 18, 2022

A federal grand jury in the US District Court for the Western District of Missouri indicted Walter Lee Hoornstra Wednesday for threatening an Arizona election official. The indictment asserts that Hoornstra left a threatening voicemail on the personal cell phone of an election official in Arizona.

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HowAppealing

APRIL 12, 2024

“Don’t blame the Arizona Supreme Court; The court gave the state legislature exactly what it asked for”: Adam Unikowsky has this post at his Substack site, “Adam’s Legal Newsletter.”

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Diane Drain

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Diane is honored by Legal Services Corp – Pro Bono Service Award for establishing the Self Help Center at the Arizona Bankruptcy Court. Its grantee organizations serving Arizona include the Community Legal Services, Southern Arizona Legal Aid (SALA), and the Window Rock-based DNA-Peoples Legal Services. Drain, P.A.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2022

Arizona , the Supreme Court will consider whether an Arizona rule of criminal procedure, Rule 32.1(g) g) , precludes Arizona courts from applying federal law to a defendant’s case in post-conviction proceedings. Arizona , reversing the Arizona Supreme Court’s erroneous holding that Simmons did not apply in the state.

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