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- Title: State v. Bernal
- Author : Arizona Court of Appeals
- Release Date : January 21, 1985
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 48 KB
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Defendant and four women, including the victim, spent the evening of October 16, 1983, drinking. Late that night, defendant drove the women to an after-hours bar in South Tucson. On the way there the victim passed out. When they arrived, the three conscious women entered the bar; when they came out, defendant, the victim, and the car were gone. The next day, the victims horribly mutilated body was recovered from a trash dumpster. Death had been caused by strangulation and multiple stab wounds. Later that day, the defendant turned himself into the Tucson police and confessed to having driven the victim to his home, carried her inside, undressed her, and mutilated and strangled her. The victim, according to him, never became conscious; her blood alcohol level at death was approximately .38. On this evidence, he was convicted of kidnapping and murder in the second degree, both of a dangerous nature, and sentenced to aggravated terms of twenty-one years imprisonment on each count, to be served consecutively.