State v. Dunn

ZIMMERMAN, Justice:

Robert W. Dunn appeals his 1981 jury conviction for second degree murder, Utah Code Ann. § 76-5-203 (1978 & Supp.1979) (amended 1986), and aggravated kidnapping, id. § 76-5-302 (1978) (amended 1983). This is the third time his case has come before this court. We initially affirmed his conviction in a per curiam opinion in 1982. State v. Dunn, 646 P.2d 709 (Utah 1982). In April of 1990, we reversed a trial court’s dismissal of Dunn’s petition for habeas corpus because we found sufficient grounds to permit him to claim ineffective assistance of counsel and to require a habeas…