Opinion ID: 752062
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: A defendant is precluded from relief under this article based on any ground:

Text: 1 Still raisable on direct appeal or on a post-trial motion 2 Finally adjudicated on the merits on appeal or in any previous collateral proceeding 3 That was waived at trial, on appeal or in any previous collateral proceeding See Ariz.Rev.Stat. § 13-4232(A). Hence, this subsection continues to provide sufficient state procedural support for Judge Howe's ruling. 8 Correll urges us to follow Justice O'Connor's concurrence in Sochor v. Florida, 504 U.S. 527, 541, 112 S.Ct. 2114, 2123-24, 119 L.Ed.2d 326 (1992), which declares that [a]n appellate court's bald assertion that an error of constitutional dimensions was 'harmless' cannot substitute for a principled explanation of how the court reached that conclusion. While we agree with this proposition, Correll's reliance on it is misplaced: by its own terms, Justice O'Connor's prescription was limited to harmless error analysis. In any event, as we discuss infra, the Arizona Supreme Court did offer a principled explanation of its decision affirming Correll's sentence