State v. Cooper

OPINION

CHRISTIANSEN, Judge:

T1 Defendant Jerry Cooper appeals his jury convictions for four counts of filing a wrongful lien. See Utah Code Ann. § 38-9-5(2) (2001) (current version at Utah Code Ann. § 76-6-503 (2008)). 1 We affirm.

BACKGROUND 2

2 In 1997, Mary and Richard Pace purchased a sixty-three percent property interest in a certain parcel of property at a tax sale. Due to complications that arose in asserting their rights to the property, the Paces hired attorney Rodney Rivers, who conducted a title search that revealed several people with a potential interest in the property. Rivers then…