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A conscious disregard for life and there was some sort of argument that precipitated it, some sudden quarrel or heat of passion and he had to provoke it. a couple of different theories here. manslaughter, she could get time served walking free. second degree, anywhere from 25 to life, maybe as low as ten years, first degree, totally different story. >> back to first degree. if it triggers -- if she is convicted of first degree murder, that triggers the aggravation phase. >> right. and this is a very interesting thing with arizona. a lot of different states, it is a death penalty state and they...

There are phases. there's the guilt or innocence phase. after that there may be an aggravation phase where we have to find out whether or not there were aggravating factors. phase three, will she get the death penalty or not? the mitigator's role is to develop the humanity of this advent. they're more like social workers. they have to interview people and ask very personal, very uncomfortable questions about this defendant's history. they are absolutely critical, constitutionally required and the fact she's been 40 or so times, absolutely acceptable. nothing strange about that. in fact, the mo...

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