Utah appellate courts cannot presume prejudice from denial of allocution rights because Utah’s indeterminate sentencing system gives trial judges much less discretion than federal courts.
Utah’s highest court will not intervene in election disputes when doing so would cause voter confusion and disrupt the orderly administration of elections.
The Utah Supreme Court clarified that defendants can only appeal as of right when a court issues a new pretrial status order ordering detention, not when a court denies a motion to modify an existing detention order.
Utah prosecutors must avoid making extrajudicial statements that risk prejudicing criminal proceedings, even when explaining important prosecutorial decisions to the public.
Utah may apply its Export Statute requirements even to interstate water diversions contemplated by federal compacts when the compact preserves state regulatory authority.
The Utah Supreme Court affirmed postconviction relief where police coaches and prosecutors knowingly failed to correct false testimony, finding the cumulative constitutional violations created a reasonable likelihood of a different outcome.
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