Trial and Appellate Experience

• More than 50 misdemeanor trials taken to verdict, including 35 DUI cases with a 50% win/loss ratio
  
  
• 13 felony jury trials to verdict in the last eight years including felony DUI, aggravated assault, rape and murder cases
  
  
• More than 100 evidentiary hearings, including motions to suppress, preliminary hearings, driver license hearings and appeals, as well as restitution hearings
  
  
• Appellate cases argued in the Utah Court of Appeals, Utah Supreme Court and 10th Circuit Court of Appeals
  
  
• More than 18 years of experience in State and Federal Trial and Appellate Courts
  

Most notable appellate victories:

• State v. Piep, 2004 UT App. 7
  
  
• State v. Harrison, 24 P.3d 936, 2001 UT 33 (Utah Ct. App. 2001)
  

Notable death penalty cases:

• State v. Ott
  
  
• Lafferty v. State (post-conviction appellate work)
  
  
• Kell v. State (post-conviction appellate work)