State v. Ferguson

OPINION

ORME, Judge:

¶ 1 This case arises from a much publicized incident initially reported as involving a possible rooftop terrorist in Salt Lake City. See Rooftop Gunman Spurs S.L. Search, Deseret News, Mar. 24, 2003, at B2; Ashley Broughton, Man. Charged in Rooftop Gun Incident, Salt Lake Tribune, Mar. 27, 2003, at C2. We have before us an interlocutory appeal from an order by the trial court reducing a charge of violating a protective order, under Utah Code section 76-5-108, from a third degree felony to a class A misdemeanor. See Utah Code Ann. § 76-5-108 (2003). We affirm in part, and…