Courts

NEW DELHI — The trial of five men charged with the gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old student on a New Delhi bus began in a closed courtroom Thursday with opening arguments by the prosecution lawyers in a special fast-track court set up just weeks ago to handle sexual assault cases.

DUSCHESNE — A jury has acquitted an Oregon man accused of soliciting naked pictures of a 13-year-old Utah girl.

OGDEN — Kevin George Peterson has been officially found innocent of the crimes for which he spent 15 years in the Utah State Prison.

Peterson’s soon-to-be-expunged file in Ogden’s 2nd District Court now includes a letter from Judge Scott Hadley that reads “Because it is the Order of the Court that you are factually innocent of the crime for which you were convicted, you are hereby relieved of all obligations and collateral consequences attributed to that prior conviction.”

OGDEN — Prosecutors have advised a judge the case law is there to allow former death row inmate Doug Lovell to shoot himself in the foot if he so chooses.

OGDEN -- Lawyers for the Ogden homeowner accused of gunning down a police officer during a pot raid are challenging Utah's death-penalty law.

SALT LAKE CITY — The woman accused of crashing into an office building to hit her estranged husband has been sentenced to one year in jail, followed by 36 months of probation.

RALEIGH, N.C. -- About four hours after the fishing charter boat Citation left dock on the Outer Banks to compete in one of the country's richest deep-sea fishing tournaments, crewmembers were in the fight of their lives. Something huge was hooked, but it was invisible to human sight as it dove for the ocean bottom about 27 miles off the North Carolina coast.