State v. Gallegos

Opinion

VOROS, Judge:

¶1 Isaac Anthony Gallegos appeals his convictions for. murder, aggravated assault, and obstruction of justice stemming from two stabbings—one fatal—outside a Salt Lake City club in 2012. Gallegos contends that the trial court erred in two ways: first, by admitting unreliable eyewitness identification testimony from one witness; and second, by refusing to declare a mistrial after a prosecution witness alluded to Gallegos’s alleged gang ties. We affirm.

BACKGROUND

¶2 On a snowy November night in 2012, two people—a club patron and a club bouncer—were stabbed outside a Salt Lake…