FARMINGTON — The murder case against a Layton woman accused of killing her children in 2010 is back on track toward trial.Judge Michael Edwards on Tuesday scheduled an eight-day trial on court days Sept. 7-17 for Sun Cha Warhola, charged with two counts of aggravated murder.A trial previously ...
OGDEN — After a four-year evidentiary process, an Ogden judge has ruled against convicted killer Douglas Lovell’s claim that ineffective defense counsel led to his conviction and death sentence.Judge Michael DiReda’s 168-page ruling, filed Feb. 26 in 2nd District Court, sends the case ...
SALT LAKE CITY — Already facing $848,000 in damages for Clean Air Act violations, the Diesel Brothers reality TV stars have a new headache: legal fees of almost $1 million.U.S. District Judge Robert Shelby ruled recently in Salt Lake City that David Sparks, Joshua Stuart and two corporate ...
Multiple county attorneys and public defenders are speaking out against a bill being considered by the Utah State Legislature that would repeal bail reform that lawmakers passed last year.<a href="https://le.utah.gov/~2021/bills/static/HB0220.html" target="_blank">House Bill ...
OGDEN — A sexual abuse case against an Ogden portrait photographer is moving forward now that he has been judged mentally competent to stand trial.Russell Scott Healey's court-appointed attorney in December had requested a competency evaluation, and in a Feb. 10 hearing in 2nd District ...
OGDEN — Prosecutors urged a judge Thursday to uphold the legality of a police interrogation in which a Pleasant View man confessed to shooting two people in an aborted drug buy.Caleb Skipps at one point asked for a lawyer during the interrogation, but made incriminating statements before ...
BRIGHAM CITY — An additional mental evaluation is in the works for a Californian charged in the 2019 shooting death of a Salt Lake City man on Interstate 84.Public defender Richard Gallegos said in a 1st District Court hearing Monday that a private evaluator is completing a review of Jonathan ...
OGDEN — A defense attorney has asked for a jury trial in the case of an Ogden man accused of assaulting his son for not wanting to go on a church mission.“We want a jury trial on it,” Randall Richards said for his client, Scott Keith Warner, 49, in a disposition hearing Wednesday ...
OGDEN — A crime spree that included a robbery-kidnapping, a shooting and a high-speed chase ending in a crash has netted an Ogden man five consecutive prison terms.Emanuel Carranza, already at the Utah State Prison on several previous felony convictions, was sentenced Wednesday by 2nd ...
OGDEN — An Ogden man has pleaded guilty to a pair of charges arising from a hit-and-run crash that critically injured a teen scooter rider.Chaz Wolford, 27, is scheduled to be sentenced April 13 after his attorney reached a plea bargain with Weber County prosecutors.Ogden police arrested ...
