United States of America v. Jason Grace

Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with murder, four counts of felony discharge of a firearm and aggravated robbery, all first-degree felonies; obstructing justice and three counts of felony discharge of a firearm, all second-degree felonies; and four counts of felony discharge of a firearm, a third-degree felony.

He is one of three people charged w... More...    $0 (05-19-2023 - UT)

Salt Lake City, Utah criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with child abuse in Indian Country.

Teresa Red Bird admitted that on numerous occasions, she knowingly and intentionally hit a 14-year-old victim who was living with her and who was under her care; that she failed to ensure that the victim ate properly; and that she caused serious physical injury to the victim. Ocianna... More...    $0 (11-09-2022 - UT)

Ogden, Utah criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with aggravated attempted murder, aggravated robbery and obstruction of justice for shooting and killing 18-year-old Kamron Johnson.

Theron Farmer, age 25, and Daniel Viegas-Gonzalez, age 30, were charged for killing Johnson during a drug deal.... More...    $0 (11-04-2021 - UT)

Salt Lake City, UT: Employment law lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendant on a Family and Medical Leave Act violation theory under 29 U.S.C. 2601.

The Family and Medical Leave Act provides as follows:

§2612. Leave requirement
(a) In general
(1) Entitlement to leave

Subject to section 2613 of this title and subsection (d)(3), an eligible employee... More...    $0 (09-09-2021 - UT)

Salt Lake City, UT - Armed Utah Drug Trafficker Sentenced To 180 Months In Federal Prison

A Vernal, Utah, man will spend 180 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute and carrying a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking offense.

U.S. District Judge Jill N. Parrish sentenced Steven Dean Hardinger, age 3... More...    $0 (07-10-2018 - UT)

Salt Lake City, UT - “Double Hat Bandit” Pleads Guilty To 18 Bank Robberies In Seven States; August Sentencing Date Set

Shayne Carson, age 54, of Albuquerque, New Mexico, dubbed the “Double Hat Bandit during a string of bank robberies committed in Utah and six other states between Oct. 15, 2016, and Sept. 16, 2017, has pleaded guilty to 18 robberies.

The plea agreement reached ... More...    $0 (06-10-2018 - UT)

This appeal arises from prison officials’ attempt to gain control over an
agitated prisoner who refused to obey their orders, locked himself in the prison’s
outdoor recreation yard, and threatened prison officials. To subdue the prisoner,
prison officials decided to drop CS gas, a commonly used tear gas, into the
recreation yard.
The plan went awry. The recreation yard containe... More...    $0 (02-10-2018 - UT)

In June 2009, as part of a federal law-enforcement investigation known as
“Operation Cerberus,” FBI and Bureau of Land Management (“BLM”) agents
arrested twenty-three people and searched twelve properties in and near three Utah
cities—Blanding, Monticello, and Moab. The operation targeted persons possessing
and trafficking in Native American artifacts illegally taken from the Four ... More...    $0 (02-14-2017 - UT)

This case arises from the death of Ute Tribe member Todd R. Murray on
April 1, 2007, following a police pursuit. Murray’s parents Debra Jones and
Arden Post, on behalf of themselves and Murray’s estate, brought a 13-count
complaint in the district court alleging various constitutional violations under 42
U.S.C. § 1983, conspiracy to violate civil rights under 42 U.S.C. § 1985, and... More...    $0 (12-29-2015 - UT)

A jury convicted Martin Bond of several heinous crimes, including aggravated kidnapping and aggravated murder. Mr. Bond challenges his convictions on three grounds. First, he argues the prosecutor committed misconduct by calling Benjamin Rettig, Mr. Bond’s codefendant, to testify when Mr. Rettig had indicated an intention to invoke his Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination and,... More...    $0 (10-14-2015 - UT)

This case arises out of two separate incidents involving WalMart employees and shoplifters.2 Each of the Employees was tasked with, among other things, investigating, documenting, and preventing the theft of merchandise by customers and employees from Wal-Mart stores. The Employees were fired for violating WalMart‘s Policy AP-09, which provides, If the Suspect is believed to possess a weapon, the... More...    $0 (09-18-2015 - UT)

Salt Lake City, UT - Tenth Circuit holds that bankruptcy court does not have jurisdiction without consent of parties

This case has but little to do with bankruptcy. Neither the debtor nor the
creditors, not even the bankruptcy trustee, are parties to it. True, the plaintiffs
claim they once enjoyed an attorney-client relationship with a former bankruptcy
trustee. True, they no... More...    $0 (07-28-2015 - UT)

SALT LAKE CITY, UT – Justin Andrew Adams, age 32, of Roy, charged in a federal indictment returned in November 2014 with three Weber County robberies and three firearms violations, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court Friday morning to one robbery and one firearms violation.

Adams admitted that he committed an Oct. 30, 2014, robbery of a Walmart located at 4848 South 900 We... More...    $0 (06-19-2015 - UT)

¶1 This is an interlocutory appeal in a pending criminal case against Michael Steinly. In this case and in several others related to it, we consider the applicability of legislative amendments to the Indigent Defense Act (IDA), Utah Code sections 77-32-101 through -704. The amended provisions override this court’s con-struction of the prior version of the statute in State v. Parduhn, 2011 UT 55... More...    $0 (01-27-2015 - UT)

¶1 Kristie Bullock appeals the district court’s entry of a civil
stalking injunction against her. Bullock argues that the district
court’s ruling was not supported by sufficient evidence and that
the district court erred by prohibiting her from impeaching
petitioner Peter David Zappe with evidence of a prior felony
conviction. We affirm.
Zappe v. Bullock
I. Suffici... More...    $0 (10-23-2014 - UT)

¶1 Nathaniel Shane Gainer1 appeals his sentence following his
conviction of aggravated robbery, a first degree felony. Gainer
claims that his prison sentence was both inherently unfair and
unreasonable in light of the particular facts and circumstances of
this case and that he was denied due process because his sentence
was based on unreliable information. We affirm.
1. Th... More...    $0 (12-11-2014 - UT)

¶1 After police discovered child pornography on Defendant Bradley Fuller‘s computer, he was charged with ten counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, all second-degree felonies. Pursuant to a plea agreement, Mr. Fuller pled guilty to five counts of voyeurism but reserved the right to appeal the trial court‘s order denying his Motion to Suppress. On appeal, he challenges the warrant under the... More...    $0 (07-11-2014 - UT)

¶1 On certiorari, petitioner Andrew LeBeau asks us to
consider whether the court of appeals erred in affirming the district
court’s imposition of a sentence of life without the possibility of
parole following Mr. LeBeau’s conviction for aggravated kidnapping
pursuant to Utah Code section 76-5-302. Mr. LeBeau’s conviction
stems from a domestic dispute triggered by Mr. LeB... More...    $0 (09-19-2014 - UT)

¶1 Nearly twenty-six years ago, a jury convicted Ralph Leroy Menzies of the first degree murder of Maurine Hunsaker. At sentencing, Judge Raymond Uno imposed the death penalty. Since then, we have issued three opinions in Mr. Menzies‘s case:
MENZIES v. STATE
Opinion of the Court
2
two from direct appeals1 and one from a post-conviction appeal.2 In Mr. Menzies‘s first post-conv... More...    $0 (09-23-2010 - UT)

Sixteen years ago Carolyn Bayless began to suffer from a mysterious debilitating
illness. As her condition deteriorated over the years that followed, she doggedly sought
to learn what caused (and how to treat) her illness. Finally, in 2008, convinced that she
was the victim of exposure to nerve gas emitted by an Army testing facility, she filed a
claim under the Federal Tort Claims... More...    $0 (09-12-2014 - UT)

¶1 After police discovered child pornography on Defendant Bradley Fuller‘s computer, he was charged with ten counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, all second-degree felonies. Pursuant to a plea agreement, Mr. Fuller pled guilty to five counts of voyeurism but reserved the right to appeal the trial court‘s order denying his Motion to Suppress. On appeal, he challenges the warrant under the... More...    $0 (07-11-2014 - UT)

¶1 Defendant Malik Eagle Benson was charged with
committing four armed robberies in downtown Salt Lake City in
less than twenty-four hours. After his arrest, Benson confessed to
the first robbery, which included the theft of a car. That car served
as the getaway vehicle in at least one of the other robberies, and
police apprehended Benson after seeing him driving it. BensonMore...    $0 (04-24-2014 - UT)

¶1 Reserving the right to appeal the trial court’s decisions, see
State v. Sery, 758 P.2d 935, 938–39 (Utah Ct. App. 1988), Defendant
conditionally pled guilty to five counts of sexual abuse of a child,
see Utah Code Ann. § 76-5-404.1(2)–(4) (LexisNexis 2012). Having
exercised his right to appeal, Defendant asks us to set aside his
guilty pleas on the grounds that the t... More...    $0 (04-24-2014 - UT)

¶1 Milan Otkovic challenges his convictions and sentences for
aggravated kidnapping, a first degree felony, Utah Code Ann. § 76-
5-302(1), (3) (LexisNexis Supp. 2013),1 and aggravated robbery, a
first degree felony, id. § 76-6-302(1)–(2) (2012). We reverse and
remand for a new trial.
State v. Otkovic
2. “On appeal, we recite the facts from the record in the light mos... More...    $0 (03-13-2014 - UT)

¶1 Defendant Jason Kyle Clark appeals his first degree felony
convictions for various counts of aggravated murder, attempted
aggravated murder, aggravated burglary, aggravated kidnapping,
and aggravated robbery, and his class B misdemeanor conviction
for aggravated cruelty to animals. We affirm on all counts.
State v. Clark
20110206-CA 2 2014 UT App 56
BACKGROUND
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¶1 Defendant Luis Miguel Cristobal appeals his first degree
felony aggravated robbery conviction. Defendant argues that the
trial court erred by denying his motion for a directed verdict. We
affirm.
State v. Cristobal
2. “We view the facts in the light most favorable to the jury verdict
and recite them accordingly.� State v. Montoya, 2004 UT 5, ¶ 2, 84
P.3d 1183 (... More...    $0 (03-13-2014 - UT)

¶1 Plaintiff Josue Castellanos appeals from the district court’s
grant of summary judgment in favor of defendant Tommy John,
LLC (Tommy John) on Castellanos’s claims for negligent hiring and
for vicarious liability based on intentional torts committed by a
security company’s employees. We affirm.
Castellanos v. Tommy John, LLC
BACKGROUND1
¶2 On August 14, 2009, ... More...    $0 (02-27-2014 - UT)

¶1 Defendant Pailate Lomu appeals his conviction on a charge
of aggravated robbery. See Utah Code Ann. § 76-2-202 (LexisNexis
2012); id. § 76-6-302. He argues that there was insufficient evidence
to support his conviction and that the court erred when admitting
evidence of other bad acts under rule 404(b) of the Utah Rules of
Evidence. We affirm.
BACKGROUND1
¶2 In A... More...    $0 (02-27-2014 - UT)

¶1 Defendant Phillip Don Burdick appeals from his convictions
for possession of a controlled substance in a drug-free zone,
possession of drug paraphernalia, and interference with an
arresting officer. We affirm.
BACKGROUND
¶2 On August 11, 2010, detectives with the Riverdale City
Police Department went to an address in Ogden, Utah, to search for
State v. Burdick
... More...    $0 (02-13-2014 - UT)

¶1 This case arises from a fight at the Utah State Prison.
Uncontroverted evidence at trial established that Defendant
Nathan Redcap, an inmate, stabbed an inmate named Wilson.
Redcap had surreptitiously remained out of his cell after he should
have returned to it. He shielded his torso with body armor
improvised from magazines and attached a shank to each hand.1
Redcap wa... More...    $0 (01-16-2014 - UT)

¶1 Troy Dean Labrum appeals from a conviction for assault,
enhanced to a class A misdemeanor for causing substantial bodily
injury. See Utah Code Ann. § 76-5-102(1), (3)(a) (LexisNexis 2012).
Labrum challenges the admission of evidence at trial relating to
prior alleged assaults. He also argues that the evidence of substantial
bodily injury was insufficient to support his con... More...    $0 (01-09-2014 - UT)

¶1 The State appeals from the magistrate’s dismissal of criminal
charges against defendant Adam Howard Jones. The State charged
Jones with one count of official neglect and misconduct, a class A
misdemeanor, see Utah Code Ann. § 10�3�826 (LexisNexis 2012);
one count of official misconduct, a class B misdemeanor, see id. §
1. The Honorable Pamela T. Greenwood, Senior Ju... More...    $0 (06-10-2014 - UT)

¶1 In this case, Christopher Carlton asks us to once again
consider both the constitutionality of the Utah Adoption Act (Act)
as well as the extent of the rights it affords to putative fathers who
wish to contest adoptions in Utah. Mr. Carlton argues first that
the Act is unconstitutional, both facially and as applied to him,
and second, that the district court erred when, bas... More...    $0 (02-05-2014 - UT)

¶1 Cody Nielsen was convicted of the aggravated murder of Trisha Autry and sentenced to life without parole. On this appeal, Nielsen raises a series of challenges to the venue for his trial—a Cache County trial with a jury comprised of Box Elder County residents. He also questions the sufficiency of the evidence to sus-tain lesser offenses of kidnapping and aggravated kidnapping and the suffici... More...    $0 (04-29-2014 - UT)

¶1 In 2007, Kenneth Trotter pled guilty to unlawful sexual conduct with a minor. Mr. Trotter later moved to withdraw his guilty plea, claiming it was not made voluntarily or knowingly because his defense counsel and the trial court failed to advise him that his plea would carry with it the requirement that he register as a sex offender. Mr. Trotter argued that this failure amounted to ineffective... More...    $0 (05-20-2014 - UT)

¶1 Chad Matthew Stewart appeals his conviction of aggravated robbery, a first-degree felony, see Utah Code Ann. § 76-6-302 (LexisNexis 2012), and receiving stolen property, a second-degree felony, see id. §§ 76-6-408, -412(1) (Supp. 2013). We affirm in part and reverse and remand in part.

State v. Stewart

20130258-CA 2 2014 UT App 112

¶2 In April 2011, Stewart drove a blu... More...    $0 (05-22-2014 - UT)