State v. Richardson

I concur in affirming defendant’s conviction because he has not shown how the trial court erred in finding that he was not entrapped. I write separately to more fully address our standard of review.

Our standard of review in a given case is not determined by the overall subject matter before us, but by the specific error alleged. Factual questions are reviewed *521under the clearly erroneous standard which requires great deference to the trial court’s findings. State v. Walker, 743 P.2d 191, 192 (Utah 1987). Legal questions, on the other hand, are reviewed under a correction-of-error standard…