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Utah Supreme Court· 3/18/1993

State v. Dunn

Citations

  • 850 P.2d 1201
  • 208 Utah Adv. Rep. 100
  • 1993 Utah LEXIS 54
  • 1993 WL 79651

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that “a party cannot take advantage of an error committed at trial when that party led the trial court into committing the error”
  • holding that if any of the requirements for plain error are not met, \plain error is not established\ and cannot be raised
  • holding that a petitioner's ineffective assistance claim failed because there was no basis in the law in effect at the time of the representation that would have substantiated petitioner's substantive claim
  • holding that “a party cannot take advantage of an error committed at trial when that party led the trial court into committing the error”
  • holding that any error was harmless where the jury had evidence of the accomplice's motivation to lie but received a general credibility instruction
  • recognizing that “[fjrom territorial days until 1980, Utah statutes expressly authorized this court to ‘reverse, affirm or modify the judgment or order appealed from’ that such “provision coexisted with section 76-1-402(5

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Judges: Zimmerman, Stewart, Hall, Howe, Durham

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