Utah appellate courts will not find eyewitness testimony inherently improbable unless it is physically impossible or apparently false, even under challenging observation conditions.
This case clarifies that when an appellate court decision is reversed on a predicate procedural ground, any merit-based rulings dependent on that ground are necessarily vacated and lose precedential effect.
The Utah Supreme Court clarified that even when legal issues remain unsettled, counsel’s performance is measured by objective reasonableness under the circumstances rather than categorical rules.
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