Utah lawmakers spent part of their interim day Wednesday debating whether to extend a bill that supporters say is designed to help victims, but which others argue is not necessary. utleg utpol danielmwoodruff
, which passed in 2022, aimed to address by allowing prosecutors in justice court to transfer those cases to district court.
At the core of the issue, Pitcher said, is that justice courts are not “courts of record.” Therefore, she said, a domestic violence case in justice court could be appealed to district court and lead to two jury trials on the same issue. But a representative of the Utah Defense Lawyers Association told the interim committee that the policy could lead to potential abuse by prosecutors simply transferring a case because they don’t want to deal with it, and that it appears to be “a really complicated solution that is desperately looking for a problem.”
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