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STATE v. COTTON

No. 1 CA-CR 99-0180.

5 P.3d 918 (2000)

197 Ariz. 584

STATE of Arizona, Appellee, v. Lawrence Ebeneza COTTON, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of Arizona, Division 1, Department A.

May 16, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Janet A. Napolitano, Arizona Attorney General by Paul J. McMurdie, Chief Counsel, Criminal Appeals Section, and Jacquelyn B. Eskay, Assistant Attorney General, Phoenix, Attorneys for Appellee.

Dean W. Trebesch, Maricopa County Public Defender by James Haas, Deputy Public Defender, Phoenix, Attorneys for Appellant.

OPINION

BERCH, Judge.

¶ 1 On August 14, 1997, Defendant Lawrence Cotton accidently shot his girlfriend, L.W., in the back of the head. L.W. was eight and one-half months pregnant at the time. Although L.W. died shortly after arriving at the hospital, her daughter was delivered alive. But the fatal injury to L.W. had so decreased the blood supply to the baby that the infant died the following day.

¶ 2 The State charged Cotton with two counts...

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