Court Opinion

ID: 9632538
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 11:18:25.403599+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:08:17.936104
License: Public Domain

GORDON, Vice Chief Justice
(concurring in part and dissenting in part):
I agree that the trial court properly found three aggravating circumstances— previous convictions of another offense for which life imprisonment or death was impossible, previous conviction of a felony involving the threat or use of violence, and that the defendant committed the offense in an especially heinous, cruel or depraved manner. I also agree that no mitigating circumstances existed sufficiently substantial to call for leniency. Therefore, I concur in the correctness of the imposition of the sentence of death in this matter. However, to be faithful to my position in State v. Clark, 126 Ariz. 428, 616 P.2d 888 (1980), I cannot agree with the majority’s interpretation of the aggravating circumstance concerning pecuniary gain.