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Cedar City Criminal Defense Attorney | Iron County Lawyer 27 Aug 2013 | 12:43 am
Cedar City is a small town located in Southern Utah. Many people are charged in Cedar City and surrounding areas in Iron County each year. Sometimes, people who are just visiting or are pulled over ju...
Orem Woman Killed, Driver Arrested for Possible Automobile Homicide 26 Aug 2013 | 10:53 pm
A woman in Orem was killed this weekend when a car jumped the curb she was sitting on and hit her. She was taken to a nearby hospital where she later died from her injuries. Apparently the driver had...
Suspending Your License for a Simple Traffic Citation 23 Aug 2013 | 03:23 am
Utah has a weird law that permits a court to suspend a driver’s license for a simple traffic citation. That means anything: having a headlight out; brake light out; speeding; swerving; having tinted ...
Angry About Imminent Parole for Child Sex Offender, Woman Starts Petition 22 Aug 2013 | 03:24 am
The Salt Lake Tribune reports that Michael Doporto, who has been in prison for about 20 years for child sex crime convictions is likely to be released on parole in near future. The mother of one of t...
Restitution Hearings in Utah Criminal Cases 20 Aug 2013 | 11:38 pm
Criminal cases involving claims for restitution in Utah are governed by the Crime Victims Restitution Act, U.C.A 77-38a-101. If you are convicted of a crime and there is a victim who suffered damages,...
Severing Charges Stemming from Multiple Utah Sex Crime Victims 19 Aug 2013 | 10:07 pm
Often time in complex Utah sex crime cases there are multiple alleged victims claiming that the defendant raped or sexually assaulted them. The prosecution loves to combine all of the alleged victims...
Salt Lake Drug Court Seizing Phones At Court 17 Aug 2013 | 01:15 am
The Salt Lake County Drug Court has been seizing participants’ phones upon arriving at drug court to conduct searches of the phones to determine whether someone is involved with dealing heroin as the ...
Utah Supreme Court Finds Prior Sex Acts Admissible in Rape Case 15 Aug 2013 | 09:31 pm
Last week the Utah Supreme Court handed down its decision in State v. Richardson, a Utah rape case, and found that the prior sex acts of an alleged victim and alleged aggressor can be admissible. In ...
Western States and Marijuana Laws 12 Aug 2013 | 02:18 am
Utah is definitely not one of the marijuana friendly states in the west. Most people have probably heard that Colorado and Washington have decriminalized marijuana for personal use. Additionally, Cali...
Drug Distribution Defense in Salt Lake City 30 Jul 2013 | 12:43 am
I-80 is a Drug Trafficking Corridor? One of the most frustrating things about law enforcement in Salt Lake City is how they treat the entire I-80 freeway as a “drug trafficking corridor.” Highway pa...
