The Utah Court of Appeals upheld a guilty plea and concurrent prison terms, rejecting rule 11, ineffective-assistance, competency, illegal-sentence, and sentencing-discretion challenges.
The Utah Court of Appeals held that a victim’s family relationship with an unassigned judge did not justify disqualifying the assigned judge or the entire county bench.
The Utah Court of Appeals rejected most ineffective-assistance claims and a rule 23B motion, but ordered correction of a presentence report’s offense classification.
The Utah Court of Appeals vacated three credit-card convictions under merger doctrine and required an on-record resolution of presentence-report objections, while affirming consecutive sentences.