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THORNELL, DIRECTOR, ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS v. JONES CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

No. 22–982. Argued April 17, 2024—Decided May 30, 2024 Respondent Danny Lee Jones was convicted of the premeditated first- degree murders of Robert and Tisha Weaver and the attempted pre- meditated murder of Robert’s grandmother Katherine Gumina. Ari- zona law at the time required the trial court to “impose a sentence of death” if it found “one or more” statutorily enumerated “aggravating circumstances” and “no mitigating circumstances sufficiently substan- tial to call