SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Supreme Court ruled Thursday that “numerous constitutional violations” during the trial and sentencing of a man who spent decades on death row merit a new trial. Justices affirmed the ruling of a lower court judge who had ordered a new trial for Douglas Stewart ...

OGDEN — During an abridged meeting at Weber Center on Tuesday, the Weber County Commission approved a contract between the county and John Rogers for the representation of indigent people in Ogden's 2nd District Court. According to his bio on the website for the Law Offices of John Rogers, ...

OGDEN — Nichole Lea Scott, the stepmother of Gavin Peterson, was sentenced Monday in the July 2024 child abuse death of the 12-year-old boy in West Haven. Scott, 51, who pleaded guilty to a litany of charges last month, was sentenced in Ogden's 2nd District Court by Judge Camille Neider. For ...

OGDEN — Two men are facing hundreds of misdemeanor charges after authorities removed 156 dogs and 11 cats reportedly living in poor conditions from an Ogden home last month. In a 91-page filing made with the Ogden Justice Court on Wednesday, the Ogden City Prosecutor’s Office accused ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Attorneys for a Utah man who has been on death row for 37 years are due before a state judge Wednesday as they seek to spare the convicted murderer from execution because he has dementia. Ralph Leroy Menzies was sentenced to die in 1988 for the killing of Maurine Hunsaker, a ...

OGDEN — The Weber County Board of Commissioners held a brief meeting Tuesday morning at the Weber Center, approving a contract with attorneys Colleen Coebergh and Julie George for indigent legal representation of Douglas Lovell in the convicted murderer's ongoing case. Last month, the ...