In November 2021, in the city of Chandler, Arizona, Chris Pelkey was shot and killed by Gabriel Horcasitas in a road rage altercation. Horcasitas was tried and convicted of reckless manslaughter. When ...

In what is a first in Arizona judicial history, possibly nationwide, artificial intelligence has brought a lifelike rendering of a deceased victim for an impact statement during a sentencing hearing.

An Arizona trial court judge allowed this innovative approach to presenting a victim impact statement, which seems like a useful step toward justice. Last week, the road-rage killer of an Arizona man ...

Stacey Wales spent two years working on the victim impact statement she planned to give in court after her brother was shot to death in a 2021 road rage incident. But even after all that time, Wales ...

For two years, Stacey Wales kept a running list of everything she would say at the sentencing hearing for the man who killed her brother in a road rage incident in Chandler, Ariz. But when she finally ...