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    • Criminal Appeals

    Abatement on appeal in Utah: what happens when a criminal defendant dies
    Abatement on appeal in Utah leaves the conviction intact, while federal courts erase the case. Learn where the rules differ.
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    • Constitutional Issues
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    • Abatement
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    • Procedural
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    • Statutory Interpretation
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    • Environmental & Land Use Appeals

    Trial by Consent in Utah: When Silence Adds a Claim
    Trial by consent in Utah can add an unpleaded issue when counsel stays silent. Boyer v. Rubin shows what to object to and when.
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    • Practice Tip
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    • Bench Trials
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    • Issue Preservation
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    • Property
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    • Criminal Appeals

    Justice Court Appeal in Utah: New Trial, 28 Days
    You were convicted of a misdemeanor or an infraction in a Utah justice court, and the result feels wrong. Can anything be done, and how fast? A justice court appeal in Utah is real, but it does not look like…
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    • Justice Court
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    • Procedural
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    • Sentencing
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    • Civil Appeals

    Responding to an appeal in Utah after you won at trial: what happens next
    Won at trial and the other side appealed? Learn how responding to an appeal in Utah works, from cross-appeals to the appellee brief.
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    • Attorney Fees
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    • Judgment
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    • Stays
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    • Criminal Appeals

    Missed a Criminal Appeal Deadline in Utah? Here are 3 options you still have
    The sentencing is over, the weeks slipped by, and now someone tells you the deadline to appeal has passed. That news lands hard. If you are facing a missed appeal deadline in Utah, the honest answer is this: it may…
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    • Deadlines
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    • Jurisdiction
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    • Post-Conviction
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    • Procedural
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    • Record Review

    Preservation of issues for appeal in Utah: what if my lawyer didn’t object?
    The verdict is in, and you keep replaying the trial. A witness said something that should never have come in. The judge made a ruling that seemed plainly wrong. And your trial lawyer said nothing. Now one question won’t let…
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    • Error
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    • Ineffective Assistance of Counsel
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    • Issue Preservation
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    • Embedded Appellate Counsel

    Embedded Appellate Counsel in Complex Multi-Week Trials
    Complex multi-week trials present the preservation problem in its most acute form. The volume of evidentiary issues is large. The pace is relentless. Unexpected developments arrive daily — witnesses who say things they were not anticipated to say, documents admitted…
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    • Trial Assistance
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    • Issue Preservation
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    • Embedded Appellate Counsel

    When Should a Trial Attorney Bring In Appellate Co-Counsel?
    The question of when to add appellate co-counsel to active litigation is not primarily a timing question — it is a recognition question. The timing follows from recognizing that appellate concerns are present in the case in a form that…
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    • Practice Tip
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    • Issue Preservation
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    • Trial Assistance
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    • Embedded Appellate Counsel
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    • Post-Trial Motions

    Post-Trial Motions as Appellate Preservation Tools
    The verdict has been entered. Most of the trial team’s attention is turning toward what comes next — whether that is filing a notice of appeal, beginning settlement negotiations, or advising the client on how to respond to enforcement of…
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    • Issue Preservation
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    • Practice Tip
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    • Trial Assistance