16 April 2018 :

The Arizona Supreme Court has upheld a trial court ruling that Kevin Artice Miles has intellectual disability and is ineligible for the death penalty. The ruling reduced Miles' death sentence to life with eligibility for parole consideration after 25 years. Miles, 44, was convicted of felony murder for his role as an accomplice in the December 7, 1992 carjacking, robbery and slaying of Patricia Baeuerlen, 40, who was driven into the desert and shot by one of Miles’ two 16-year-old companions. At the time of the crime, he was 23. He was sentenced to death in Pima County on July 6, 1993. Co-defendant Levi Jaimes Jackson (White), the actual shooter, was sentenced to death on January 26, 1994. The sentence was reduced after the Supreme Court in 2005 banned the death sentence for juveniles. Co-defendant Ray Hernandez testified against Jackson in exchange for having first-degree murder, kidnapping and armed robbery charges against him dropped. He was allowed to plead guilty to the lesser charge of second-degree murder and was sentenced for second-degree murder and received from 15 to 20 years in prison.