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A Utah judge has dismissed claims of sexual misconduct brought by a woman against Tim Ballard, saying she improperly accessed ...
Maurine Hunsaker was just 26 years old when she was robbed, kidnapped and murdered nearly four decades ago. Now, in July 2025 ...
There are now only two immigration judges left to handle more than 60,000 deportation cases in the state of Utah.
A Utah judge on Wednesday set an execution date for a man with dementia who has been on death row for 37 years, even as his ...
A Salt Lake City man accused of sexually assaulting a woman in Santa Clara, Washington County, on Valentine's Day in 2021 ...
Ralph Leroy Menzies, 67, is scheduled for execution on 5 September for the 1986 abduction and murder of Utah mother-of-three ...
Ralph Menzies, a death row inmate who was convicted of the kidnapping and murder of Maurine Hunsaker in 1986, is set to ...
Judges in Utah’s busiest courts feel overwhelmed. (Scott G Winterton | Deseret News/Pool) Juvenile Judge Renee Jiminez sits in with Judge Paul B. Parker on Friday, Dec. 13, 2019.
Utah Supreme Court Chief Justice Matthew Durrant and Court of Appeals Judge Ryan Tenney are both up for retention. JPEC recommended that all of Utah’s judges be retained this year.
A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction Monday (July 21) partially granting Planned Parenthood’s request to prevent ...
In Utah, we are fortunate to have a merit selection system for judges, meaning that judges are selected based on their qualifications, not based on their politics.
Judge Michael W. Kwan of Municipal Justice Court in Taylorsville, Utah, was suspended without pay for six months after making “politically charged comments” about President Trump, the Utah ...