Roscoe v. Arizona

How later courts describe this case

• aggravating circumstances found: that murder committed while defendant was engaged in first-degree burglary and that murder was part of a course of violent conduct
• reversing in part because defense counsel failed to move to suppress witness’s clothing identification after impermissibly suggestive procedure
• "The words 'heinous' and 'depraved' refer [respectively] to the nature of the crime and the state of defendant's mind."
• defendant stabbed seventy-two-year-old victim several times with steak knife and pocket knife, inflicted numerous bruises and fractures, attempted to rape her, and stole her pocketbook
• defendant murdered seventy-two year old woman then stabbed and sexually assaulted the victim’s mentally retarded daughter
• evidence of a brutal attack, sexual assault, and strangulation sufficient to support a finding of premeditation and deliberation
• defendant had previously been convicted of common law robbery, and during the murder for which he received the death sentence he had assaulted another with a deadly weapon, inflicting serious injury
• trial within 60 days is not a constitutional mandate; a trial court may grant a continuance to allow defense counsel more time to prepare for trial over the express objections of a defendant