State v. Whittle

DURHAM, Associate Chief Justice:

¶ 1 Defendant Forrest Whittle appeals from a jury conviction for murder, a first degree felony in violation of Utah Code Ann. § 76-5-203. Whittle asserts that because of flagrant prosecutorial misconduct during the grand jury proceedings leading to his indictment, the indictment and subsequent conviction should be set aside. In addition, he argues that because there is a reasonable likelihood that, absent a combination of evi-dentiary errors at trial, he would not have been convicted, his conviction should be set aside. We affirm.

¶2 According to the testimony…