A judge overturned the 1985 murder conviction and death sentence of a Utah man after key witnesses said police gave them gifts and money and coached them to give false testimony. Now, Utah's attorney general plans to appeal the judge's ruling.
Utah's attorney general plans to appeal an overturned murder conviction in a 1985 death penalty case where key witnesses now say police gave them gifts and money and coached them to give false testimony.State lawyers last week filed notice that they planned to appeal the order vacating the conviction of Douglas Stewart Carter, who was accused of stabbing and shooting Eva Olesen in Provo during a robbery.
The witnesses said police threatened to deport them and separate them from their infant child if they didn't cooperate.Police said that the payments were for "witness protection" — but Pullan wrote that the evidence for that claim was "paper thin."Pullan ruled that Carter's own confession might not have held up if jurors had known how police had treated the witnesses.
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