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Gill v. Turner

Supreme Court of Utah
Dec 26, 1972
504 P.2d 1003 (Utah 1972)

Opinion

No. 12892.

December 26, 1972.

Appeal from the Third District Court, Salt Lake County, Joseph G. Jeppson, J.

David P. Rhode, Salt Lake Legal Defenders, Salt Lake City, for plaintiff and appellant.

Vernon B. Romney, Atty. Gen., David S. Young, Asst. Atty. Gen., Salt Lake City, for defendant and respondent.


Appeal from a denial of a petition for writ of habeas corpus in a case where Gill pleaded guilty in April, 1967 to one robbery charge, whereupon two other robbery charges were dismissed. Affirmed.

Four and a half years after Gill pleaded guilty, he seeks a release, urging the rather common complaint that his counsel were incompetent, and he did not enter the plea voluntarily. Neither urgence finds substance in the record. This case simply represents a case where the accused says one thing and his counsel, — two of them, one of which withdrew on account of conflict of interest, — said the opposite. Both counsel were and are reputable members of the Bar of this state, and the lower court obviously gave more credence to their sworn testimony, and not unreasonably so, we think.

Under familiar rules of appellate review, we affirm the trial court.

CALLISTER, C. J., and TUCKETT, ELLETT and CROCKETT, JJ., concur.


Summaries of

Gill v. Turner

Supreme Court of Utah
Dec 26, 1972
504 P.2d 1003 (Utah 1972)
Case details for

Gill v. Turner

Case Details

Full title:Richard D. GILL, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. John W. TURNER, Warden, Utah…

Court:Supreme Court of Utah

Date published: Dec 26, 1972

Citations

504 P.2d 1003 (Utah 1972)
29 Utah 2