SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Chicago native who has been on death row in Utah for more than three decades for the death of a Provo woman is seeking a new trial.
The Deseret News reports 63-year-old Douglas Stewart Carter is asking the state Supreme Court to order a new hearing based on information that surfaced years after his conviction.
Carter was sentenced to death after a jury found him guilty of stabbing and shooting 57-year-old Eva Olesen during a home-invasion robbery in February 1985.
His attorneys claim Provo police officers paid two witnesses’ rent and instructed them to lie about the financial help. Prosecutors say those claims are not true.
The lawyers presented arguments to the state’s highest court Wednesday. The court has not yet issued a decision.