State of Arizona, Appellee v. Frank Winfield Anderson, Appellant

Summary

The court affirmed Anderson's convictions and death sentences, concluding that his preserved and unpreserved challenges to the indictment, jury selection, evidence, instructions, prosecutorial arguments, and aggravating circumstances did not warrant relief. The court held that the conspiracy-instruction error was harmless because the jury necessarily found intent to kill through its premeditated-murder verdicts, and independently upheld the death sentences after excluding the unsupported heinous-or-depraved aggravator for two murders. The court did not finally resolve the aggravated armed-robbery sentence, reserving that issue for a supplemental opinion.