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The Court held that the accused has a right to bring his parole ineligibility to the jury&#8217;s attention.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In this case the Arizona Supreme Court confirmed that parole was unavailable to defendant because under Arizona laws \u201cparole is available only to individuals who committed felony before January 1, 1994\u201d and here defendant has committed his crimes in 2001. However, in <em>Simmons v. South Carolina<\/em>, 512 U.S. 154(1994), it was held \u201cwhere a capital defendants future dangerously is at issue, and the only sentence alternative to death available to the jury is life imprisonment without the possibility of parole\u201d the Due Process Clause \u201centitles the defendant to inform the jury of his parole ineligibility either by a jury instruction or in argument by the council.\u201d Hence <em>Simmons<\/em> establishes defendant&#8217;s right to inform his jury of the fact. 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