OGDEN — Brenda Emile insisted Tuesday that she got a phone call threatening the lives of her children. “If you don’t take the deal you’re going to bury another kid,” she said her mother told her in August, before she agreed to a plea bargain in the 2017 death of her 3-year-old ...
FARMINGTON — A prosecutor has objected to additional proposed terms for the conditional release from the Utah State Hospital of a man who fatally shot and slashed his mother 16 years ago. Jeremy Hauck, 34, should remain in custody at the Provo institution “because his threat of ...
OGDEN — Prosecutors have urged a judge to deny Brenda Emile’s bid to withdraw her guilty plea to her daughter’s murder, saying that the Ogden woman’s claim of coercion was “a recent fabrication.” On Aug. 19, the 27-year-old Emile agreed to a plea bargain, admitting to first-degree ...
SALT LAKE CITY — On Friday, a handful of Utah teens and pre-teens took on their state in the court of law. In Natalie R. v. State of Utah, youth plaintiffs are suing the state by arguing that promotion of fossil fuels contributes to worsening air quality and violates their constitutional ...
FARMINGTON — Roy Police Officer Ryan A. Estes will appeal his conviction on a child sexual abuse charge, his attorney said Friday. Rich Gallegos, who represented the 39-year-old Estes in his two-day trial that ended Monday, said by email that the verdict will be challenged. In a bench trial, ...
FARMINGTON — Roy Police Officer Ryan A. Estes has been found guilty of sexually abusing a girl in Clinton in 2015 and still faces four similar charges in Weber County. At the conclusion of a two-day 2nd District Court bench trial in Farmington on Monday, Judge Michael DiReda found Estes, 39, ...
