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STATE v. ROMERO

No. CR-15-0039-PR.

365 P.3d 358 (2016)

STATE of Arizona, Appellee, v. Joseph Javier ROMERO, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Arizona.

January 20, 2016.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark Brnovich, Arizona Attorney General, John R. Lopez IV, Solicitor General, Joseph T. Maziarz, Chief Counsel, Criminal Appeals Section, Tanja K. Kelly, (argued), Assistant Attorney General, Tucson, Attorneys for State of Arizona.

Steven R. Sonenberg, Pima County Public Defender, Abigail Jensen, (argued), Assistant Public Defender, Tucson, Attorneys for Joseph Javier Romero.

Amy Kalman, (argued) and Mikel Steinfeld, Maricopa County Public Defender's Office, Phoenix, and Kathleen Brody, Osborn Maledon, P.A., Phoenix, Attorneys for Amicus Curiae Arizona Attorneys for Criminal Justice.

Chief Justice BALES authored the opinion of the Court, in which Vice Chief Justice PELANDER and Justices BRUTINEL, TIMMER, and BERCH (Retired) joined.

¶ 1 The State's evidence supporting the conviction of Joseph Javier Romero included testimony by a firearms examiner, based on a toolmark comparison, that a certain pistol had fired six shell casings found at the murder scene. We consider whether the trial court abused its discretion by precluding...

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