Legal Opinion
State v. Moreno
Court of Appeals of Utah
Decided May 5, 2005No. Case No. 20030505-CAPublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
THORNE, Judge:
¶ 1 Benjamin James Moreno appeals the trial court’s sentencing order, which issued after Moreno pleaded guilty to one count of sodomy upon a child. See Utah Code Ann. § 76-5-403.1 (2003). We affirm.
BACKGROUND
¶ 2 In early September 2002, Santa Clara, Utah, police officers arrested Moreno as a suspect in a child sex crime that had been reported the previous day. Moreno was alleged to have used bicycle tricks to lure a small group of young boys into the secluded yard of an abandoned house. There, he further lulled the boys into trusting him with additional tricks, and he…
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