State v. Bradshaw

NEHRING, Justice:

INTRODUCTION

11 Representing himself as an owner of a mortgage company, Brooks Bradshaw assured his fourteen victims that he could help them refinance their current mortgages. After collecting fees from his victims, Mr. Bradshaw disappeared.

1 2 Mr. Bradshaw was charged with eleven counts of communications fraud.1 The district court concluded that Mr. Bradshaw's defraudation of his fourteen victims was part of a single "scheme or artifice." As such, Mr. Bradshaw was exposed to conviction for eleven second degree felonies under Utah's communications fraud statute, Utah Code Ann.…