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STATE v. SALES

No. 13754.

537 P.2d 1031 (1975)

STATE of Utah, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. Robert Lee SALES, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of Utah.

July 11, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Maurice Richards, John T. Caine, Reed M. Richards, Public Defender Assn. of Weber County, Ogden, for defendant and appellant.

Vernon B. Romney, Atty. Gen., Earl F. Dorius, Asst. Atty. Gen., Salt Lake City, for plaintiff and respondent.

CROCKETT, Justice:

Robert Lee Sales seeks reversal of his conviction of murder in the first degree and sentence of life imprisonment thereon for the killing of JoAnn Poulsen, committed on August 21, 1971. His claims of error center upon the contention that there had been so much publicity about the case that he could not and did not have a fair trial by an impartial jury in Weber County.1

The victim, JoAnn Poulsen, 19 years of...

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