State v. Escalante-Orozco
Annotate this CaseAfter a jury trial, Defendant was found guilty of first degree murder, sexual assault, and first degree burglary. Defendant was sentenced to death for the murder and to consecutive sentences of fifteen and twenty years’ imprisonment for the sexual assault and burglary counts, respectively. The Supreme Court affirmed Defendant’s convictions and non-death sentences but vacated the death sentence and remanded for a new penalty phase, holding that, in light of the Supreme Court’s decision in Lynch v. Arizona, the trial court erred by refusing to tell the jury that Defendant was ineligible for parole, and the error was not harmless.
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