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S. Salt Lake man pleads guilty to killing mom over coffee

Last updated Tuesday, May 15, 2012 - 10:34am

SALT LAKE CITY -- A 23-year-old South Salt Lake man has pleaded guilty to killing his mother after she asked him to make her a cup of coffee.

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Utah man pleads guilty in Idaho fatal crash

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, May 11, 2012 - 8:50am

KETCHUM, Idaho -- A Utah truck driver has pleaded guilty to misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter in the death last summer of a Hailey woman who had stopped at a road construction zone near Jerome.

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Teen in Nevada classmate's killing pleads guilty

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, May 9, 2012 - 1:45pm

ELKO, Nev. — One of two teens accused in the March 2011 slaying of a Nevada classmate has pleaded guilty to first-degree murder with a deadly weapon in a deal that will spare him the death penalty.

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Scarlett Johansson hacker pleads guilty to stealing naked images

Richard Winton Los Angeles Times

Last updated Monday, March 26, 2012 - 4:51pm

LOS ANGELES -- After hacking into the email accounts of Christina Aguilera, Mila Kunis and Scarlett Johansson to procure naked images of them, a Florida man pleaded guilty in court Monday to nine felony cyber crimes and was immediately taken into custody.

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Man pleads guilty to Layton robbery while proclaiming innocence

Loretta Park Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, March 19, 2012 - 6:33pm

FARMINGTON — A man has pleaded guilty to a reduced charge but says he did not wield a knife at a couple during a vehicle burglary.

Raymond Joseph Emmett, 32, entered a guilty plea to second-degree felony robbery Monday before 2nd District Judge Michael G. Allphin.

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Price man pleads guilty in RV standoff that hurt deputy

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, March 13, 2012 - 8:42am

PRICE -- A 41-year-old Price man has pleaded guilty in a shooting that injured a Carbon County deputy last year.

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Layton man guilty of distribution of child porn

Loretta Park Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, March 2, 2012 - 10:09pm

SALT LAKE CITY — A Layton man has accepted a plea agreement to a federal charge of distribution of child pornography. Brandon Florence, 32, entered a guilty plea to the charge Feb. 16 in U.S. District Court.

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Man pleads guilty in DUI that killed SLC paramedic

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, February 29, 2012 - 11:24am

SALT LAKE CITY -- A 27-year-old man has pleaded guilty to automobile homicide and driving under the influence in a Salt Lake City crash that killed a paramedic.

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Chevron robber pleads guilty

Loretta Park Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, February 17, 2012 - 7:12am

FARMINGTON — A man police say robbed a Chevron convenience store to get money to buy an Xbox has pleaded guilty.

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Man pleads guilty to collecting 1 million images of child porn

Rick Plumlee Wichita Eagle

Last updated Tuesday, January 31, 2012 - 5:14pm

WICHITA, Kan. -- A Wichita man pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court to collecting more than a million images of child pornography, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.

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PHOTO BY BRIAN NICHOLSON ----- Mark Ott prepares to leave the courtroom for a short recess during his sentencing hearing in Second District Court in Farmington Tuesday, March 30, 2004. Ott plead guilty to attempted aggravated murder for stabbing Allen Lawrence 23 times and killing Lawrence's daughter Lacey.

Mark Ott's attorneys file motion to withdraw guilty pleas

Loretta Park Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, January 23, 2012 - 3:41pm

FARMINGTON -- Mark Anthony Ott's attorneys have filed a motion to withdraw all of his guilty pleas dealing with a fire that burned his ex-wife's home, the stabbings of her friend and daughter, and the death of 6-year-old Lacey Paige Lawrence.

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Man pleads guilty to fatal SLC motel stabbing

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, January 20, 2012 - 9:02pm

SALT LAKE CITY -- A Utah man accused of killing a woman and stuffing her body under the mattress of a motel bed has pleaded guilty to a murder charge.

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Joran van der Sloot, left, enters the courtroom for the continuation of his murder trial at San Pedro prison in Lima, Peru, Wednesday Jan. 11, 2012. The Dutch citizen sought and received more time to decide how to plead when his trial opened on Jan. 6 for the murder of 21-year-old Stephany Flores on May 30, 2010. (AP Photo/Karel Navarro)

Van der Sloot pleads guilty to killing Peru woman

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, January 11, 2012 - 10:54am

LIMA, Peru -- Joran van der Sloot pleaded guilty on Wednesday to the 2010 murder of a 21-year-old Peruvian woman he met at a Lima casino who was killed five years to the day of the unsolved disappearance in Aruba of an American teen in which he remains the main suspect.

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Guilty plea in case tied to Gayle Ruzicka's son's death

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, December 22, 2011 - 5:13pm

SALT LAKE CITY -- The man accused of selling the heroin that led to the fatal overdose of Utah Eagle Forum President Gayle Ruzicka's son has pleaded guilty to a first-degree felony drug charge.

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FILE - In a Nov. 1, 2011 file photo, Shawn Weimer and his lawyer David Steingold listen to 33rd District Court Judge Michael McNally during a bond hearing in Woodhaven, Mich. Weimer on Monday, Dec. 19, 2011 pleaded guilty to second-degree child abuse and allowing an unlicensed minor to operate a motor vehicle after allegedly letting his 9-year-old daughter drive him around because he had been drinking. (AP Photo/Mandi Wright, Pool, File)

Drunk dad who had 9-year-old drive pleads guilty

Elisha Anderson Detroit Free Press

Last updated Tuesday, December 20, 2011 - 10:29am

DETROIT -- A father who admitted he had his 9-year-old daughter drive his van while he was intoxicated pleaded guilty Monday to a felony child-abuse charge.

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