HAYS, Justice.
This case is a direct appeal from an order of the Maricopa County Superior Court directing a new trial for the defendant-appellee. The judge who presided at Leslie's jury trial solicited contact with certain relatives of the victim after the jury returned its verdict of guilty of first-degree murder on September 1, 1981. The trial judge actually made telephone contact with two of the victim's relatives before he had conducted the presentence hearing...
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