(St. George, UT) — Deputy Washington County Attorney Eric Gentry will soon be moving to the 5th District Court bench. On Wednesday, Governor Spencer Cox named Gentry as his choice to replace retiring Judge Michael Westfall. The state Senate will need to confirm Gentry’s nomination. Gentry has served in the […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah State Prison inmate has been charged with first-degree murder in the killing of his cellmate. The Deseret News reports 24-year-old James Tamoua of Salt Lake City was charged Friday in state District Court in the Sept. 21 killing of 38-year-old Reo Guy Watts of Salem […]
AMERICAN FORK, Utah (AP) — A 30-year-old Utah man faces up to life in prison after pleading guilty to the 2015 killings of his former girlfriend and her young son. The Utah County Attorney’s Office said Christopher Poulson pleaded guilty Tuesday in state District Court in American Fork to murder […]
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — The Utah Supreme Court has revived a lawsuit filed by a man who spent 17 days in jail in Box Elder County without being brought before a judge. The Standard-Examiner reports that the Supreme Court’s ruling Monday said the state District Court incorrectly applied a standard for determining […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah man who authorities say stabbed his girlfriend multiple times and left her to die in front of her 5-year-old son has been sentenced to a minimum of 15 years in prison for murder. The Deseret News reports a judge sentenced 50-year-old Darren Byrd on Tuesday […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Salt Lake City area man who contended that tax laws didn’t apply to him has been sentenced to up to 15 years in prison on multiple convictions for felony tax evasion and related crimes. Judge Paul B. Barker sentenced 62-year-old Dennis Kay Iverson on […]
