State of Arizona, Appellee v. Brian Jeffrey Dann, Appellant

Summary

The Arizona Supreme Court affirmed Dann’s death sentences after his resentencing jury found the multiple-murder aggravator and rejected leniency. The court held that Dann validly waived counsel, the resentencing procedures and evidentiary rulings did not constitute reversible constitutional or discretionary error, and the aggravating circumstance was proved beyond a reasonable doubt. Independently reweighing the evidence, the court concluded that the substantial weight of the multiple-murder aggravator outweighed Dann’s minimal mitigation.