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· 5/30/2024

State v. Camperud

Syllabus

The district court should impose the least severe sanction when determining the remedy for the State discovery violation. The level of appropriate sanction depends on the severity of the disclosure violation.

How courts have described this case

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

  • recognizing that UPUA (formerly referred to as RICE) was “modeled after the federal ‘RICO’ statute”
  • recognizing that \in some circumstances the nature of the error involved is such that [the] de facto burden [placed on the accused to show prejudice] should be shifted and. the State required to persuade us that the error was harmless\
  • noting that a particular statute “lends itself to confusion” and explaining that “[a]ppellate review of such cases would be greatly enhanced” by the use of special verdict forms
  • noting that “this Court has never squarely decided whether violations of the Utah Constitution must be addressed under the federal constitutional standard of 'harmless beyond a reasonable doubt1 ”
  • addressing issue in interest of judicial economy, since issue likely to recur, to provide trial court with guidance
  • addressing issue in interest of judicial economy, since issue likely to recur, to provide trial court- with guidance

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Judges: Crothers, Daniel John

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