Bruner v. Carver

HOWE, Justice:

Plaintiff John Patrick Bruner appeals from a denial of his petition for extraordinary post-conviction relief.

I.BACKGROUND

In May 1989, a jury found Bruner guilty of criminal homicide, a capital offense, and burglary, a second degree felony. He was sentenced to a minimum mandatory term of life imprisonment on the homicide charge and to a consecutive term of one to fifteen years on the burglary offense.

Bruner’s trial attorneys, Frances Palacios and Lynn Brown of the Salt Lake Legal Defender Association (LDA), filed a timely notice of appeal with the district court. Pa-lacios sent…