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Arizona court to rule on right to jury trial
Comments 0 | Recommend 0PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona appellate court on Tuesday revisits the issue of whether people accused of shoplifting are entitled to jury trials.
The Court of Appeals will issue a decision in the case of a woman who was denied a jury trial for a case from Peoria.
A Maricopa County Superior Court judge ruled last year that a municipal judge wrongly denied her a jury trial.
The Superior Court judge ruled that the question was subject to debate.
But he also said the question was decided by a 1978 Court of Appeals decision that there was a right to jury trial in shoplifting cases.
Factors cited by the 1978 ruling included penalties faced by defendants if convicted and the long-standing right to jury trial in cases involving a related crime, larceny.
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