State v. Nielsen

Justice LEE,

opinion of the Court:

T1 Cody Nielsen was convicted of the aggravated murder of Trisha Autry and sentenced to life without parole. On this appeal, Nielsen raises a series of challenges to the venue for his trial-a Cache County trial with a jury comprised of Box Elder County residents. He also questions the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain lesser offenses of kidnapping and aggravated kidnapping and the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain his bindover for trial on aggravated murder. Finally, he asserts that his convictions for kidnapping and desecration of a body should have…