Legal Opinion

State v. Horvath

Court of Appeals of Utah

Decided August 23, 2018No. 20160789-CAPublishedCited by 4 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

POHLMAN, Judge:

¶1 Breanna Lynn Horvath appeals her convictions of one count of obstruction of justice and one count of reckless driving. Regarding her obstruction of justice conviction, Horvath argues that the trial court erred by refusing her request for a lesser-included-offense instruction and that she received constitutionally ineffective assistance of counsel because her counsel failed to object to an allegedly erroneous instruction. As to her reckless driving conviction, she argues that the court incorrectly entered the conviction as a class A misdemeanor rather than a class B…

2Cases cited13 opinions

  1. Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
  2. State v. DunnUtah Supreme Court · 1993
  3. State v. ReeceUtah Supreme Court · 2015
  4. State v. PowellUtah Supreme Court · 2007
  5. State v. WhittleUtah Supreme Court · 1999

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3Cited by4 opinions

  1. State v. MarquinaCourt of Appeals of Utah · 2018
  2. State v. SquiresCourt of Appeals of Utah · 2019
  3. State v. RicksCourt of Appeals of Utah · 2018
  4. State v. ThomasCourt of Appeals of Utah · 2019

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