State v. Lafferty

776 P.2d 631, 109 Utah Adv. Rep. 21, 1989 Utah LEXIS 50, 1989 WL 57897

Opinions

MEMORANDUM OF DECISION

ZIMMERMAN, Justice:

Defendant Ronald Watson Lafferty petitioned this Court to reconsider its opinion affirming his convictions and sentences for two first degree murders, two burglaries, and two conspiracies to commit murder. See State v. Lafferty, 749 P.2d 1239 (Utah 1988). We granted his petition, filed at the suggestion of Judge Greene of the United States District Court for the District of Utah, in order to review several transcripts that he claims were not originally made part of the record on appeal and upon which he is basing a pending federal court collateral attack on his conviction.

We have considered the briefs of all parties, have heard oral argument, and have reviewed all of the transcripts not filed with this Court prior to the original submission of briefs in this case. We conclude that those transcripts add nothing of substance to what was contained in the record previously before this Court and that there is no merit to Lafferty’s claim that these additional transcripts warrant any change in our prior disposition of his claims. Our original opinion stands as written.

HALL, C.J., HOWE, Associate C.J., and STEWART, J., concur.