STATE v. KUFRIN

No. 20210499-CA.

551 P.3d 416 (2024)

2024 UT App 86

STATE of Utah, Appellee, v. Michael Ignatius KUFRIN, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of Utah.

Filed June 6, 2024.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Emily Adams, Freyja Johnson, Salt Lake City, and Melissa Jo Townsend, Attorneys for Appellant.

Sean D. Reyes, Salt Lake City, and Jonathan S. Bauer, Attorneys for Appellee.

Judge Ryan M. Harris authored this Opinion, in which Judges David N. Mortensen and Amy J. Oliver concurred.


Opinion

¶1 After a thirteen-day trial, a jury convicted Michael Ignatius Kufrin of murdering his girlfriend, Peggy Sue Case (Peggy), in 1988. Kufrin appeals that conviction, asserting that the trial court should have declared a mistrial after one of the State's witnesses mentioned that Kufrin had "previous cellmates...

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