State v. Fowers

OPINION

MeHUGH, Associate Presiding Judge:

{1 William Eli Fowers appeals from his conviction of one count of eriminal solicitation. See Utah Code Ann. § 76-4-208 (2008). Fowers argues that defense counsel was ineffective in introducing evidence of Fowers's twenty-five-year-old conviction for sodomy on a child and for failing to move for a mistrial in response to the prosecutor's comment during closing argument suggesting a relationship between Fowers's bisexuality and pedophilia. Fowers also argues that the trial court committed plain error and that defense counsel was ineffective in allowing…