Court Opinion

ID: 4456860
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Date Created: 2019-11-19 15:02:38.885382+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:02:24.262073
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NOTICE: NOT FOR OFFICIAL PUBLICATION.
 UNDER ARIZONA RULE OF THE SUPREME COURT 111(c), THIS DECISION IS NOT PRECEDENTIAL
                 AND MAY BE CITED ONLY AS AUTHORIZED BY RULE.

                                    IN THE
             ARIZONA COURT OF APPEALS
                                DIVISION ONE

                     STATE OF ARIZONA, Respondent,

                                        v.

                 ARTHUR ANTONIO OCHOA, Petitioner.

                         No. 1 CA-CR 19-0118 PRPC
                             FILED 11-19-2019

    Petition for Review from the Superior Court in Maricopa County
                           No. CR 1999-092982
         The Honorable Christine E. Mulleneaux, Judge Pro Tem

                  REVIEW GRANTED; RELIEF DENIED

                               APPEARANCES

Maricopa County Attorney’s Office, Phoenix
By Andrea L. Kever
Counsel for Respondent

Arthur Antonio Ochoa , Florence
Petitioner
                             STATE v. OCHOA
                            Decision of the Court

                       MEMORANDUM DECISION

Presiding Judge Jennifer B. Campbell delivered the decision of the Court,
in which Judges Lawrence F. Winthrop and Michael J. Brown joined.

P E R C U R I A M:

¶1            Petitioner Arthur Antonio Ochoa seeks review of the superior
court’s order denying his petition for post-conviction relief, filed pursuant
to Arizona Rule of Criminal Procedure 32.1. This is petitioner’s fourth
petition for review.      The court has also considered petitioner’s
supplemental argument filed November 1, 2019.

¶2             Absent an abuse of discretion or error of law, this court will
not disturb a superior court’s ruling on a petition for post-conviction relief.
State v. Gutierrez, 229 Ariz. 573, 577, ¶ 19, 278 P.3d 1276, 1280 (2012). It is
petitioner’s burden to show that the superior court abused its discretion by
denying the petition for post-conviction relief. See State v. Poblete, 227 Ariz.
537, ¶ 1, 260 P.3d 1102, 1103 (App. 2011) (petitioner has burden of
establishing abuse of discretion on review).

¶3            We have reviewed the record in this matter, the superior
court’s order denying the petition for post-conviction relief, and the petition
for review. We find that petitioner has not established an abuse of
discretion.

¶4            We grant review and deny relief.

                           AMY M. WOOD • Clerk of the Court
                           FILED: AA

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