Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with murder.

In 2018, Defendant Brandon Redfoot fatally shot Julio Rodriguez. On August 18, 2023, a jury found Redfoot guilty of the following counts: Count One murder in the second degree while within Indian Country, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1111(a) and 1153(a); Count Two assault with a dangerous weapon ... More...    $0 (03-31-2025 - UT)

Monticello, Utah criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with rape and aggravated assault.


Tyler Draper was charged with six counts of rape and one count of aggravated assault. The charges were based on sexual encounters that Draper had with four young women that Draper knew from his hometown or the surrounding area. At the close of a four-day trial, the jury convic... More...    $0 (10-24-2024 - UT)

Ogden, Utah criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with aggravated assault and commission of domestic violence in the presence of a child.

A jury convicted Phillip Mason King of aggravated assault and commission of domestic violence in the presence of a child. King now appeals those convictions, asserting that the trial court abused its discretion by allowing certain te... More...    $0 (10-24-2024 - UT)

Nicole Cote Rosecrans was charged with one count of aggravated assault for threatening her mother, Nancy Rosecrans, with a butcher knife and two counts of misdemeanor assault for hitting Nancy in the face and biting her fingers.[1] After a bench trial, Nicole was acquitted of aggravat... More...    $0 (09-12-2024 - UT)

From 1998 to 2009, Alavina Florreich was the nanny for
Alex and his siblings. Florreich is a Tongan immigrant, and Alex
and his siblings were the homeschooled children of a Jewish
rabbi.
¶3 When Alex was eight years old, Florreich was watching a
movie with Alex and his younger siblings one day when Alex
began giving her a shoulder massage. While doing so, Alex
s... More...    $0 (01-24-2024 - UT)

Salt Lake City, Utah criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with first-degree sexual assault.

¶1 The State charged Devin Randolph with four first-degree
felonies connected to an alleged sexual assault. The State filed a
motion for pretrial detention pursuant to Utah Code section 77-20-1,
arguing that there was substantial evidence to support the charges
and clear a... More...    $0 (08-04-2022 - UT)

Salt Lake City, UT - Manslaughter charge criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Deland Cornpeach, 20, of the Shoshone-Bannock Indian Tribe, who was charged with one count of voluntary manslaughter and one count of assault on a federal officer.

Cornpeach admitted to stabbing the victim, E.P., an enrolled member of the Ute Indian Tribe, to death with a knife on the Uintah and Oura... More...    $0 (02-11-2021 - UT)

Salt Lake City, UT - Man Convicted of Hate Crime for Using a Stun Device During a Racially-Motivated Assault of His Neighbor

Following a three-day trial, a jury found Mark Porter, 59, of Lake Havasu City, Arizona, guilty yesterday of committing a federal hate crime when he used a stun device during the racially-motivated assault of a neighbor at his apartment complex in Draper, Utah. Ass... More...    $0 (03-22-2018 - UT)

The State tried Mr. Martin on four counts of aggravated sexual abuse of a child, a first-degree felony, for sexually abusing his sisters-in-law A.L. and N.L. while occupying “a position of special trust in relation to” them. UTAH CODE § 76-5-404.1(4)(h). ¶ 7 At trial, A.L. testified that Mr. Martin had touched her vagina on four different occasions while he was supervising her; N.L. testified tha... More...    $0 (11-26-2017 - UT)

Michael Johnson was charged and tried for murder. At trial, Mr. Johnson requested an instruction for the lesser offense of homicide by assault. The trial court agreed and stated on the record that it would use the homicide by assault instruction submitted by Mr. Johnson. ¶3 The jury returned a guilty verdict on the murder charge, and Mr. Johnson appealed his conviction to the court of appeals. H... More...    $0 (11-26-2017 - UT)

¶1 Chadley Keith Calvert appeals his convictions for aggravated assault, a third degree felony, and for threatening with or using a dangerous weapon in a fight or quarrel, a class A misdemeanor. Calvert contends that his trial counsel provided constitutionally ineffective assistance in failing to raise arguments related to double jeopardy and that the trial court exceeded its discretion in admitti... More...    $0 (11-20-2017 - UT)

¶1 Hadley Christensen claims reimbursement pursuant to Utah
Code section 52-6-201, from his former employer, Juab School
District, for attorney fees and costs incurred in a successful defense
against charges of aggravated sexual abuse of a child. The two issues
before us are (1) whether the right to reimbursement attaches based
on the allegations within the information, or unde... More...    $0 (08-11-2017 - UT)

Salt Lake City, UT - Jury Convicts Jereb of Assault on a Federal Officer, Possession of Methamphetamine, Heroin

Arron B. Jereb, age 34, of Wyoming, was convicted of assault on a federal officer, possession of methamphetamine and heroin, and possession of drug paraphernalia by a federal jury following a four-day trial in federal court last week. The jury made a specific finding as a part ... More...    $0 (05-03-2016 - 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)

Within a month after Raymond Zisumbo complained to his supervisor at Ogden
Regional Medical Center (ORMC) about alleged race discrimination in the workplace,
2
ORMC investigated Zisumbo for submitting apparently fraudulent letters to his
supervisor months earlier. After confirming that at least one of the letters was falsified,
ORMC terminated Zisumbo’s employment. Zisumbo sued... More...    $0 (09-04-2015 - UT)

In December 2010, in response to a call reporting a potential crime, Salt Lake City Police Officer Jonathan Dew began a search of the house where Mr. Carrera rented a room. During his search, Officer Dew identified himself as a police officer and asked Mr. Carrera to come out of his bedroom. After being asked several times, Mr. Carrera finally joined Officer Dew in the living room. ¶3 Upon enterin... More...    $0 (08-17-2015 - UT)

West Jordan, UT - The State of Utah charged Bill Robert Thompson, 45, with first-degree murder and aggravated assault as a result of him having driven his pickup into a busy intersection while in an intoxicated rage killing a woman and her daughter on their way to cheerleading practice on May 8, 2014. Thompson was found to have a blood alcohol level of 0.22. He has gotten into a fight with his wi... More...    $0 (06-26-2015 - UT)

PHOENIX, AZ – Roberto Miguel Nanez, 31, of Sacaton, Ariz., a member of the Gila River Indian Tribe, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge G. Murray Snow to 57 months in prison. Nanez previously pleaded guilty to domestic assault by a habitual offender.

Over the course of 2 days, from Feb. 5-6, 2014, within the Gila River Indian Community, Nanez beat his girlfriend causin... More...    $0 (05-27-2015 - UT)

SALT LAKE CITY, UT – Lorenzo Puentes, age 38, of Ogden, pleaded guilty in federal court in Salt Lake City to assault on a federal officer with a dangerous weapon and discharging a firearm during a crime of violence.

U.S. District Judge Dee Benson accepted the guilty pleas and imposed a sentence of 150 months, including 30 months for the assault conviction and 120 months for ... More...    $0 (05-22-2015 - UT)

Salt Lake City, UT - A jury convicted Michael Pascal of abusive sexual contact. He appeals,
challenging the district court’s admission of a prior uncharged sex offense under
Federal Rule of Evidence 413. Exercising jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291, we
affirm.
I
In 2013, Pascal boarded a commercial flight and sat in his assigned middle
seat. The adjacent window seat wa... More...    $0 (05-20-2015 - UT)

¶1 This case, like Nevares v. M.L.S., 2015 UT 34, presents ques-tions concerning the applicability and constitutionality of Utah Code section 78B-6-111. That provision forbids a biological father
1 Associate Chief Justice Nehring acted on this case prior to his retirement.
IN RE ADOPTION OF J.M.S.
Opinion of the Court
2
from challenging an adoption when his child was conceived... More...    $0 (02-06-2015 - UT)

¶1 Theodore James Samul appeals from an amended sentence
and from the dismissal of his motion to withdraw his 2003 guilty
pleas. We affirm in part and reverse in part and remand.
1. The Honorable Russell W. Bench, Senior Judge, sat by special
assignment as authorized by law. See generally Utah R. Jud. Admin.
11-201(6).
State v. Samul
BACKGROUND
¶2 Samul was charge... More...    $0 (01-29-2015 - UT)

¶1 Jeffery Russell Finlayson appeals the district court’s order
dismissing his petition for post-conviction relief for failure to
prosecute. We affirm.
1. This Amended Opinion replaces the Opinion issued October 23,
2014.
2. On August 21, 2014, Landon A. Allred withdrew as counsel, at
Finlayson’s request.
3. The Honorable Russell W. Bench, Senior Judge, sat by spec... More...    $0 (10-23-2014 - UT)

¶ 1 Appellant Daniel Painter appeals his conviction for aggravated assault, a third degree felony. We affirm.
¶ 2 “When reviewing a jury verdict, we examine the evidence and all reasonable inferences in a light most favorable to the verdict, reciting the facts accordingly.â€� State v. Heaps, 2000 UT 5, ¶ 2, 999 P.2d 565. Painter and a neighbor (Neighbor) lived in different apartments in t... More...    $0 (11-14-2014 - UT)

¶1 Jeffery Finlayson appeals from his convictions for
aggravated kidnapping, a first degree felony, Utah Code Ann. § 76-
1. The Honorable Pamela T. Greenwood, Senior Judge, sat by
special assignment as authorized by law. See generally Utah R. Jud.
Admin. 11-201(6).
State v. Finlayson
5-302 (LexisNexis Supp. 2013),2 and aggravated assault, a third
degree felony, id. §... More...    $0 (11-28-2014 - UT)

¶1 Robert Damien Thornton appeals from his conviction of
three counts of rape of a child, three counts of sodomy on a child,
three counts of aggravated sexual abuse of a child, and one count
of witness tampering, all of which resulted from his alleged sexual
abuse of his roommate’s twelve-year-old daughter (Child).
Thornton argues that the district court erred by excluding e... More...    $0 (11-14-2014 - 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 Ronnie Sessions was convicted of aggravated sexual assault and domestic violence in the presence of a child arising out of his attack on his wife in the presence of the couple’s four-year-old daughter. At voir dire, counsel for Sessions used all five of his pe-remptory challenges on female members of the venire. When the prosecution objected, Sessions failed to give nondiscriminatory explana... More...    $0 (10-21-2014 - UT)