Utah Supreme Court· 11/1/1991

State v. Johnson

Citations

821 P.2d 1150
173 Utah Adv. Rep. 3
1991 Utah LEXIS 144
1991 WL 222833

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holding that a wife's purchase of counterfeit methamphetamine to poison her husband did not constitute a substantial step toward committing the murder because it did not go beyond \mere preparation\
holding that \a jury must be unanimous on all elements of a criminal charge for the conviction to stand\ and decided before the current Utah Rules of Criminal Procedure were in effect
determining that because the jury returned a general verdict of guilty, the court could not discern on which aggravating factor the jury was unanimous
determining that because the jury returned a general verdict of guilty, the court could not discern on which aggravating factor the jury was unanimous
speaking of a rule of reversal where “any one” of the prosecution’s theories “lacks the requisite eviden-tiary foundation”
determining that there was insufficient evidence to support a conviction for attempted first degree murder based on one of the two charged aggravating factors, and noting that the jury did not specify the aggravating factor upon which its verdict was based

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Judges: Zimmerman, Hall, Howe, Stewart, Durham

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