Courts

Before Timmy Brent Olsen and Christopher Neal Jeppson can stand trial on murder charges, the court has a number issues to settle, including where the trial will be, whether the two men will be tried together, and what kind of evidence will be permitted.

A judge ruled on Monday that there was enough evidence to send an Iraq War veteran to trial for charges stemming from a four-and-a-half-hour standoff with police at his Eagle Mountain home.

One of two men from an edited movie rental business in Orem who were charged with paying 14-year-old girls for sexual favors pleaded guilty on Friday.

Jeremy Duda

It's getting harder for Utah County's most prolific criminals to stay under the radar.

An American Fork chiropractor who was convicted of sexually abusing a former employee is appealing his sentence, saying that the court erred in lumping the allegations of four accusers into one trial.

It may be awhile before Grant Joel Hildreth has to begin serving his sentence for forcible sex abuse, but it looks like he may have to spend the interim in the Utah County Jail.

Former Utah County Commissioner David Gardner resolved his sexual battery case on Friday, but appears to be facing new legal troubles.

A judge on Thursday set a trial date for the man accused of killing UVSC hockey coach Kenneth Dolezsar.

Jesus Manuel Holguin-Albo's murder trial has been delayed several times over the past two years by the removal of attorneys from the case. But with the trial less than two weeks away, everything appears to be on track after a judge settled several last-minute issues in the case, including whether Holguin-Albo's former defense attorneys will be able to testify, and what they will be able to talk about on the witness stand.

The U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals denied Timmy Brent Olsen's petition to rehear a recent appeal of his federal perjury sentence, increasing the likelihood that the murder suspect will have to serve a full 12 1/2 years behind bars for perjury.

Jeremy Duda

A man accused of gunning down former UVSC hockey coach Kenneth Dolezsar was bound over for trial Friday on charges of murder and aggravated robbery.

Jeremy Duda

The human-resources director of a Lindon company that was raided by federal immigration authorities pleaded guilty on Thursday to assisting two illegal aliens in their attempts to get jobs at his company.