Case Name: STATE of Utah, Plaintiff and Appellee, v. Ronald Watson LAFFERTY, Defendant and Appellant
Court: Utah Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Utah
Decision Date: 1989-05-30
Citations: 776 P.2d 631
Docket Number: No. 20740
Parties: STATE of Utah, Plaintiff and Appellee, v. Ronald Watson LAFFERTY, Defendant and Appellant.
Judges: HALL, C.J., HOWE, Associate C.J., and STEWART, J., concur.
Reporter: Pacific Reporter 2d
Volume: 776
Pages: 631–632

Head Matter:
STATE of Utah, Plaintiff and Appellee, v. Ronald Watson LAFFERTY, Defendant and Appellant.
No. 20740.
Supreme Court of Utah.
May 30, 1989.
Richard B. Johnson, Orem, Gary H. Weight, Michael D. Esplín, Provo, for defendant and appellant.
R. Paul Van Dam, Sandra L. Sjogren, Salt Lake City, for plaintiff and appellee.

Opinion:
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United States District Court for the District of Utah, in order to review several transcripts that he claims were not originally made part of the record on appeal and upon which he is basing a pending federal court collateral attack on his conviction.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.