Legal Opinion
State v. Tillman
Utah Supreme Court
Decided December 22, 1987No. 19000PublishedCited by 199 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HALL, Chief Justice:
After a trial before a jury, defendant was convicted of first degree murder in violation of Utah Code Ann. § 76-5-202 (1978) (amended 1983, 1984 & 1985) and sentenced to death. On appeal, he raises ten points of error.
I. FACTS
On May 26, 1982, Mark Schoenfeld was found dead in his smoke-filled apartment. He was lying on a smoldering bed, and his body was badly burned. Experts determined that the fire had been deliberately started and that its point of origin was the victim’s mattress. Although the victim had received several severe blows to the head, the primary cause of…
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