Unnecessarily Aggressive Officer On September 19, 2009, Officer Dennis Nelson was asked to transport an individual who had been accused of interfering with the Utah County Major Crime Task Force (“the suspect”). When Nelson asked the suspect to remove a string bracelet from his wrist the suspect dropped it on the floor and said “it’s all yours” while making a…
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Utah Man Gets Two Year Prison Sentence
Sentencing for False Bidding Tim DeChristopher was sentenced yesterday at the federal courthouse in Salt Lake City. DeChristopher who was earlier convicted of disrupting a federal oil and gas lease auction in 2008, did not receive the maximum penalty of 10 years but the two years sentence still incited outrage. In 2008 DeChristopher originally went to the BLM auction of…
Former Utah State Employees Plead Guilty
Teresa Bassett, 59, and Leah Carson, 32, both pleaded guilty Monday in connection with a list of 1,300 supposed illegal immigrants that was released to law enforcement agencies and the public. Both women worked for the Department of Workforce Services when they allegedly compiled the list. Carson entered a guilty plea in connection with a plea agreement, and stated that…
A Complex Criminal System
Being arrested and/or charged with a crime is obviously a trying time for anyone. In many situations it is a persons first experience with the legal system and not only are they frightened about what could happen but usually very confused about how the courts work and what their options are. Unfortunately, because the courts are constantly striving to be…
Unconstitutionally Vague Statutes in Utah
A Statute Can Be Held Inapplicable if It is Impermissibly Vague Under Utah constitutional law, a court will refuse to apply a statute if it is “impermissibly vague.” A statute is impermissibly vague if it either (1) fails to provide people of ordinary intelligence a reasonable opportunity to understand what conduct it prohibits or (2) authorizes or even encourages arbitrary…