SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah death-row inmate whose double-murder case was featured in the book “Under the Banner of Heaven” is asking an appeals court to hear his case again. The Deseret News reports the request for the full 10th Circuit Court of Appeals to hear Ron Lafferty’s case comes […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A federal appeals court has denied a death-row challenge by a Utah inmate whose double-murder case was featured in the book “Under the Banner of Heaven.” Utah assistant solicitor general Andrew Peterson says the Monday’s ruling by the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals means Ron […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A federal appeals court has upheld a ruling that found voting districts in a Utah county were racially gerrymandered and violated the rights of Navajo voters. The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver handed down the opinion Tuesday in the case that resulted in […]
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — A Utah man has lost an appeal of his conviction for illegally making and selling more than 1,400 machine-gun converter devices for AR-15-style rifles. The Standard Examiner reports that Scott Ray Bishop had argued that he was wrongly blocked from offering expert testimony about his converter kit, which […]
