In Re Goalen

HENRIOD, Justice:

Appeal from a denial of a petition filed under Rule 65B, Utah Rules of Civil Procedure, praying for a mandate ordering the warden of the Utah State Prison to let petitioner marry one Easthope, a convicted rapist, sodomist and robber, whose conviction was upheld recently, on May 29th, by this court.1 Affirmed.

In that case Easthope unsuccessfully claimed a defense under the Fifth Amendment. In a previous case,2 where he also was convicted of rape, he unsuccessfully claimed a defense under the Sixth Amendment. It goes without saying that East-hope’s record involves many years’…