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AG’s Sanctions Request Called ‘Personal Attack’ on Capital Defense Lawyers
Lawyers for a death-row inmate told the Utah Supreme Court yesterday that a prosecutor's attempt to obtain sanctions against them had put them at odds with the interests of their client.
Assistant Attorney General Thomas Brunker is asking the court to sanction the lawyers for raising 43 issues that were either decided by an earlier appeal or not supported by the facts or the law, report the Associated Press and the Deseret News. The lawyers had filed the appeal on behalf of convicted murderer Michael Anthony Archuleta.
But the lawyers, Edward Brass and Lynn Donaldson, said they must raise all possible claims in an appeal or risk seeing them barred in later court proceedings,… Continue reading...
