The judge has stayed his ruling rejecting the convictions against Douglas Stewart Carter, awaiting a possible appeal by prosecutors.
Douglas Stewart Carter, who has been on Utah's death row since 1985, has his shackles removed so he can take notes at defense table during a 2007 hearing in Provo's 4th District Court.The conviction and death sentence of a man found guilty in a 1985 Provo killing has been overturned by a judge who ruled there was misconduct by Provo police and prosecutors.
in 2019 that “damning revelations” about the conduct of police and prosecutors could have affected Carter’s conviction and sentencing. Justices sent the case back to 4th District Court, where a hearing took place in November 2021. Lucia Tovar told a police officer she feared deportation and said that a Provo police officer told her, “As long as you’re working with us, it’s not going to happen.”
When asked why he lied, Epifanio Tovar said he was “threatened” by police and lied “because that’s what they [police] wanted me to say.”
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