PHOENIX (AP) - A court ruling says Arizona law permits more than one relative of a dead or incapacitated crime victim to be named as a victim representative and granted rights and protections under Arizona’s Victims’ Bill of Rights.
The state Court of Appeals ruled Thursday in a Coconino County case in which Jason Conlee was accused of killing 6-year-old Jason Hester in Ash Fork in 2015.
The trial judge had ruled that only one person could be designated as a representative of the deceased and that a sibling of the boy couldn’t be designated because someone else had already been designated.
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According to the Arizona Daily Sun , Conlee has since pleaded guilty to a lesser charge and awaits sentencing. Another defendant has been convicted of murder and two others await trial.
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