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, ...
BRIGHAM CITY — Defense attorneys again are questioning whether Jonathan Mendoza Llana is mentally competent to face charges in the rifle slaying of a driver on Interstate 84 three years ago. Llana, 48, has been at the Utah State Hospital in Provo most of the time since his arrest the day ...
SALT LAKE CITY — A federal judge has rejected a Sunset man's request that he be granted early release from probation on his conviction for being in the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot. Michael Lee Hardin, a former Salt Lake City police officer, pleaded guilty to class B ...
OGDEN — A woman charged in the death of her 3-year-old daughter says she pleaded guilty because the lives of her other children were threatened. Attorneys representing Brenda Emile, 27, of Ogden, filed a motion in 2nd District Court on Monday asking that she be allowed to withdraw her guilty ...
