SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints says it didn’t improperly meddle in a death row inmate’s 2015 trial when it laid out ground rules for what local church leaders could say before they testified as character witnesses for the man. In a December […]
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — The appeal hearings for a Utah death-row inmate are lasting longer than anticipated. The Ogden Standard-Examiner reported Sunday that 61-year-old Douglas Lovell was initially supposed to only have hearings in his case during the month of August. Lovell has twice been convicted of capital murder and sentenced to […]
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — A former attorney for a Utah death-row inmate has testified that lawyers for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints had asked him to call fewer church members to testify in his client’s 2015 trial. The Standard-Examiner reports attorney Michael Bouwhuis told an Ogden court Tuesday that […]
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — A Utah death-row inmate is heading back to court to determine if he had ineffective legal counsel and if The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints meddled in his 2015 trial. The Standard-Examiner reports 61-year-old Douglas Lovell will be back in an Ogden courtroom starting Monday over […]
