Category: Criminal Defense
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Two Men Arrested in Utah After an Incendiary Device Found Under News Vehicle
Salt Lake City, UT — Police arrested two men after finding an incendiary device under a parked news media vehicle in downtown Salt Lake City. The device had been lit…
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Why Utah Is Quietly Moving Away From the Death Penalty
Utah hasn’t officially abolished the death penalty. But in practice, the state is using it less and less. The reasons for that shift go beyond politics. The system itself is…
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State v. Menzies, 2025 UT 38
August 30, 2025 – The Utah Supreme Court has halted the execution of death row inmate Ralph Leroy Menzies, ruling that the district court erred when it denied his petition…
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State v. Barner, 2020 UT App 68
In this appeal the court addressed their standard for review when looking at an issue of a district court’s denial of a motion for a directed verdict.
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Criminal Defense Requires Strategy, Not Just Presence
In criminal courtrooms across the country, and certainly here in Utah, it’s not uncommon to see attorneys standing beside their clients with little more than a file and a few…
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Monarrez v. Utah Dep’t of Transp., 2016 UT 10
In this appeal the Utah Supreme Court addressed how courts should interpret statutes and legislative intent behind statutes.
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State v. Canton, 2013 UT 44
How should a court determine the ordinary meaning of nontechnical terms of a statute?
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Mitigation in Utah Criminal Defense: Beyond the Question of Guilt
When the public imagines a criminal case, they often reduce it to a single question: Did the defendant do it? Yet experienced criminal defense attorneys in Utah know the reality…
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White-Collar Crimes: Power, Profit and Deceit
“Money is a cruel mistress. Pay attention to her or she will leave you for someone else.”
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State v. Pham, 2016 UT App 105
What evidence is sufficient to support a finding of serious bodily injury?
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Pink-Collar Crimes: How Trusted Employees Steal Millions
“Trust can be very expensive, especially when it is invested in the wrong person.”
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Understanding the Rainbow of Collar Crime
When it comes to the difference between right and wrong we expect everything to be black and white. But when discussing types of crimes there is a rainbow of classifications…