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Respondent was suspended for two years because he was transferred to inactive status in 2002 and administratively suspended in 2010 but offered to provide legal services in immigration matters in Utah, where he was not licensed to practice, and engaged in the unauthorized practice of law in Utah, misrepresented to clients that he was an attorney who could handle immigration issues, accepted payment for legal services, failed to provide those services and failed to contact his clients or refund their fees.
Respondent was disbarred for charging excessive fees, failing to deposit those fees into a trust or IOLTA account; neglecting clients matters, failing to refund unearned or unused fees, making direct and blatant misrepresentations to his clients about expenditures; for inadequate and unprofessional representation by not filing his appearance in a timely fashion and failing to file a pre-trial statement, attend the pre-trial con-ference or make any effort to obtain reports or depose witnesses for trial; failing to file a brief after f
Trial court erred in allowing plaintiffs to file a second amended complaint alleging negligence in plaintiffs treatment in hospitals transitional skills unit as well as the original negligence involved in her fall from her hospital bed because the claims regarding the TSU were time barred. Vacated and remanded.
Defendant could not prevail on an ineffectiveness of counsel claim for failure to call a witness where he could not demonstrate that the purported witness to his self-defense argument was available and prepared to testify on his behalf. The court recommended affirmance of an order denying defendant post-conviction relief.
Motion for judgment of acquittal in rape trial properly denied where victim testified to being severely intoxicated and passing out during the sexual encounter at issue, which was sufficient to demonstrate the victims lack of consent. Order of the trial court affirmed.
The court denied a motion to exclude admission of cellular telephone evidence where the courts order was based on an affidavit that was not misleading and which provided sufficiently accurate information to allow the court to issue the order.
Plaintiffs §1983 claim under state-created danger theory failed where plaintiff failed to plead facts establishing that state actors did not act with deliberate indifference or committed affirmative act to create danger, where plaintiff alleged that state actors failed to report continued inappropriate behavior by plaintiffs attacker. Defendants motion for summary judgment granted.
Action dismissed for forum non conveniens, where courts in foreign country where alleged assault occurred were more appropriate forum as they could compel witness testimony and had compelling interest in adjudicating claims of assault within their borders, if plaintiffs claims were not time-barred under local statute of limitations. Defendants motion to dismiss granted.
The court suppressed statements by a defendant which were deliberately elicited from him prior to Miranda warnings. Criminal charges overlapping those for which defendant pleaded guilty in federal court were barred by double jeopardy considerations.