Legal Opinion

State v. Taylor

Utah Supreme Court

Decided October 24, 1997No. 910496Published

1Opinion of the Court

947 P.2d 681 (1997)

STATE of Utah, Plaintiff and Appellee,

v.

Von Lester TAYLOR, Defendant and Appellant.

No. 910496.

Supreme Court of Utah.

October 24, 1997.

Jan Graham, Atty. Gen., J. Frederic Voros, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Robert W. Adkins, Coalville, Terry L. Christiansen, Park City, for plaintiff and appellee.

J. Bruce Savage, Park City, for defendant and appellant.

DURHAM, Justice:

We hear this appeal from a capital conviction pursuant to section 78-2-2(3)(i) of the Utah Code. Defendant Von Lester Taylor pled guilty to two counts of capital murder in 1991. After a sentencing hearing, the jury…

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2Cases cited19 opinions

  1. Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
  2. Cuyler v. SullivanSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
  3. State v. WalkerUtah Supreme Court · 1987
  4. Joseph James Blake v. Ralph Kemp, Warden, Georgia Diagnostic CenterCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1985
  5. State v. TemplinUtah Supreme Court · 1990

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