PHOENIX (AZFamily) — House Bill 2611, better known as “Preston’s Law,” now rests on the desk of Gov. Katie Hobbs, awaiting her signature.
The new legislation would create harsher penalties for aggressors in lopsided assaults after the beating death of East Valley teen Preston Lord in 2023.
Lord was brutally assaulted outside a Halloween party in Queen Creek more than a year ago, in an attack that sent shockwaves across the East Valley and Arizona. He died two days later from multiple blunt-force injuries stemming from that attack, prosecutors said…