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                         McKINNEY v. ARIZONA

        CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF ARIZONA

No. 18–1109. Argued December 11, 2019—Decided February 25, 2020
An Arizona jury convicted petitioner James McKinney of two counts of
 first-degree murder. The trial judge found aggravating circumstances
 for both murders, weighed the aggravating and mitigating circum-
 stances, and sentenced McKinney to death. Nearly 20 years later, the
 Ninth Circuit held on habeas review that the Arizona courts violated
 Eddings v. Oklahoma, 

, by failing to properly conside