State v. Rodriguez-Ramirez

Justice LEE,

opinion of the Court:

T1 This is an interlocutory appeal in a pending criminal case against Bruno Rodriguez-Ramirez. In this case and in several others related to it, we consider the applicability of legislative amendments to the Indigent Defense Act (IDA), Utah Code sections Ti-32-101 through -704. The amended provisions override this court's construction of the prior version of the statute in State v. Parduhn, 2011 UT 55, ¶¶ 23-30, 283 P.3d 488, by foreclosing an indigent defendant in a criminal action from retaining private counsel while requesting public defense resources from…