The Importance of the Jury Trial and Voir Dire Voir dire is part of the jury selection process. The jury trial is a right over which many lives were lost in the founding of this country. It is a mechanism to protect individuals against an oppressive government. Think about how different things would be if an individual charged with a…
Geist was a Weimeraner dog, known to be rather gentle. Geist Is About More Than a Dog Perhaps you’ve heard about Geist, the dog that was shot and killed by Salt Lake City police officer Brett Olsen while the officer was allegedly searching for a missing child. The case has wrought concern because the officer killed the dog on private…
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Only certain officers are trained in determining whether someone is under the influence of drugs. When people think about impaired driving most people think of the typical alcohol-induced DUI, but drugs are involved in almost as many impaired driving cases. There are some tests that have been developed specifically to detect the involvement of drugs in an impaired driving case.…
When someone is convicted of a felony in Utah the judge typically wants to find out as much about that person as possible before handing down a sentence. This is accomplished through what is called a presentence report or a presentence investigation (PSI). The presentence investigation is carried out by Adult Probation and Parole, the branch of the Department of…
The Deseret News reports yesterday that a woman in Salt Lake got upset at a man who lived in the apartment beneath her because he complained that she was being too noisy. Rather than quiet down, the woman decided to get angry at him, so she grabbed a samurai sword and took a swing at him, slicing his arm. She…
Memorial Day Weekend is one of the busiest weekends of the year for Utah Highway Patrol (UHP). UHP writes more DUI citations over this weekend than almost any other weekend of the year. Unlike Christmas, New Year’s Eve, and other holidays where people are traveling typically shorter distances under the influence, on Memorial Day Weekend, people are typically driving longer…
Under the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, a defendant may not be retried for the same offense once jeopardy has attached. Many people have a fundamental understanding that they can only be tried for the same offense once. If your acquitted by a jury, the...
The Utah Rules of Civil Procedure have changed this month with regards to time period for filing motion papers and some of those changes are significant. The amendments to these time periods were made in an effort to bring Utah more closely aligned with the federal rules. New Response and Reply Times for Motions Whenever a motion is filed the…
Federal Judge Dale Kimball this week ordered Governor Herbert and Attorney General Reyes to legally recognize the many same sex marriages performed in Utah during the 17 day period in which same sex marriages were legal. The court held on Monday that the state of Utah could not demonstrate a valid interest or harm in recognizing the same sex marriages…
