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Utah Supreme Court· 6/30/2000

State v. Burns

Citations

  • 2000 UT 56
  • 4 P.3d 795
  • 398 Utah Adv. Rep. 32
  • 2000 Utah LEXIS 69

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that, although the ability to hire a private attorney is a factor in determining indigency, it is not the determinative factor and will not necessarily bar a defendant from obtaining a medical expert funded by the public defender’s office
  • holding statutory right to publicly funded expert assistance under statute could not be conditioned upon accepting court-appointed counsel in lieu of private counsel retained at father’s expense
  • holding statutory right to publicly funded expert assistance under statute could not be conditioned upon accepting court-appointed counsel in lieu of private counsel retained at father's expense
  • statutory right to publicly funded expert assistance under Utah’s Indigent Defense Act could not be conditioned upon defendant’s accepting court-appointed counsel in lieu of private counsel retained at her father’s expense
  • “[T]he only deciding factors of eligibility for [expert] assistance are that the defendant in a criminal case be indigent and that the investigatory and other facilities be necessary to a complete defense.”
  • “[T]he only deciding factors of eligibility for [expert] assistance are that the defendant in a criminal case be indigent and that the investigatory and other facilities be necessary to a complete defense.”

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Judges: Russon, Howe, Durham, Durrant, Wilkins, Russon'S

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