For some Utah prisoners, the wait for an appellate lawyer stretches beyond a year. The state’s Indigent Appellate Defense Division has four full-time attorneys, handles nearly 100 criminal appeals annually and says it needs twice its current staff to keep pace,…
DNA connects serial killer Ted Bundy to the death of another Utah teenager, authorities announced Tuesday, exactly 52 years after her body was discovered in the woods by a hunter. Bundy has been dead since 1989, but the tally of his confirmed…
Estimated read time: 11-12 minutes SALT LAKE CITY — Artificial intelligence is already being used inside the Salt Lake County District Attorney's Office, helping prosecutors sort through evidence, conduct legal research and manage growing amounts of digital information. But District Attorney Sim…
(Utah State Courts) Weber County Justice Court Judge Trent Nelson is the only judge on the ballot this year who received a negative recommendation from the Utah Judicial Performance Evaluation Commission. Only one Utah judge on this year’s ballot received…
PROVO, Utah (ABC4) — After a video showing a woman being shoved to the ground and arrested during a protest in Utah County went viral, the Utah County Sheriff has released a statement, arguing that they had a responsibility to maintain order.
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A current and former Utah sheriff are both charged with obstruction of justice in a case tied to the high-profile prosecution of Kouri Richins, the realtor convicted of poisoning her husband with a fentanyl-laced cocktail and then writing a children's…
The Utah Supreme Court heard three back-to-back cases on Monday asking the high court to block a transfer of the cases to the Utah Legislature’s newly created, randomly selected three-judge panel spec...
(Fox 13 News) A newly expanded Utah Supreme Court heard legal challenges to the legislature's creation of a special court to hear lawsuits against laws the legislature passes. But the justices aren’t really getting to the merits of the cases. Instead,…
Judges in northern Utah are about three times as likely to put someone convicted of a third-degree felony behind bars as judges in the southeastern part of the state, raising questions about whether justice is being equally applied statewide, according…
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