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   State Courts - Arizona - February 24 - March 4, 2005

  
Parrot v. Daimlerchrysler Corp., 1 CA-CV 04-0121, COURT OF APPEALS OF ARIZONA, DIVISION ONE, DEPARTMENT C, February 24, 2005, Filed
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Overview: Trial court erred in finding that Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act and Arizona Lemon Law were inapplicable to leased vehicles because although lessee was not a "consumer" under restricted definition of "buyer" in prong one of Act, lessee qualified as a "consumer" under prongs two and three; thus, he was entitled to pursue his claim against manufacturer.

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SFPP, L.P. v. Ariz. Dep't of Revenue, 1 CA-TX 03-0015, COURT OF APPEALS OF ARIZONA, DIVISION ONE, DEPARTMENT T, February 24, 2005, Filed
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Overview: Summary judgment was properly awarded to taxpayer, who owned substantial petroleum pipeline property in Arizona, in suit challenging valuation of pipeline property by Arizona Department of Revenue because taxpayer properly interpreted "original cost" in Ariz. Rev. Stat. ? 42-14204 (Supp. 2003) as original cost of placing pipeline assets in service.

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State v. Carreon, Arizona Supreme Court No. CR-03-0160-AP, SUPREME COURT OF ARIZONA, February 24, 2005, Filed
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Overview: Pursuant to Ariz. Rev. Stat. ? 13-703.04, in balancing mitigating evidence that had no more than de minimus weight against two statutory aggravators that defendant had been previously convicted of a serious offense and that he committed offenses while on authorized release from the DOC, supreme court found that his death sentence was appropriate.

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Safeway Ins. Co. v. Guerrero, Supreme Court No. CV-04-0146-PR, SUPREME COURT OF ARIZONA, February 25, 2005, Filed
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Overview: Insurer alleged that counsel for injured party manufactured a bad faith claim; insurer brought suit, alleging tortious interference with a contract. Supreme court could not conclude that counsel had improper motive because counsel offered to settle for policy's limits, withdrew the offer, and then settled with insured for much higher amount.

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State v. Chiappetta, 2 CA-CR 2001-0433, COURT OF APPEALS OF ARIZONA, DIVISION TWO, DEPARTMENT B, February 28, 2005, Decided
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Overview: Imposition of aggravated sentences was proper in an identity theft case; defendant's prior convictions were sufficient to authorize the imposition of the aggravated sentences, which were within the range authorized by statute, and the Sixth Amendment right to jury trial was not implicated by consideration of defendant's criminal history.

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State v. Cofield, 1 CA-CR 04-0242, COURT OF APPEALS OF ARIZONA, DIVISION ONE, DEPARTMENT D, March 1, 2005, Filed
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Overview: Defendant was not entitled to presentence incarceration credit under Ariz. Rev. Stat. ? 13-709(B) for the time he was detained at the Arizona Community Protection and Treatment Center pending resolution of the sexual violent person allegations; defendant was not "in custody" within the meaning of the statute.

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Hutto v. Francisco, 1 CA-CV 03-0678, COURT OF APPEALS OF ARIZONA, DIVISION ONE, DEPARTMENT B, March 3, 2005, Filed
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Overview: Trial court properly concluded that a mother's negligence claim against the father for not installing seatbelts in a truck, thereby causing their son's death, was not preempted by federal law, but improperly granted the father summary judgment as the issue of whether the risk of harm was unreasonable should have been left to a jury.

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State v. Aguilar, 1 CA-CR 02-0079, COURT OF APPEALS OF ARIZONA, DIVISION ONE, DEPARTMENT A, March 3, 2005, Filed
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Overview: An excited utterance of a father yelling defendant's known name just before the father came into the house and got a gun, heard and testified to by the young son, was not testimonial for purposes of a Sixth Amendment Confrontation Clause objection, and the excited utterance was properly admitted in defendant's trial for murder of the father.

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State v. Estrada, 1 CA-CR 03-0914, COURT OF APPEALS OF ARIZONA, DIVISION ONE, DEPARTMENT E, March 4, 2005, Filed
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Overview: Trial court did not violate defendant's Sixth Amendment jury-trial guarantee when it considered additional aggravating factors not found by the jury, weighed them against the sole mitigating circumstance, and imposed aggravated sentences within the authorized ranges because defendant's criminal history alone exposed him to the aggravated sentences.

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State v. Pitre, 1 CA-CR 03-0526, COURT OF APPEALS OF ARIZONA, DIVISION ONE, DEPARTMENT C, March 4, 2005, Filed
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