Opinion ID: 2514079
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: state v. morrison

Text: ¶ 2 Acting on a search warrant, officers of the St. George Police Department found and seized thousands of photographs of children from Morrison's bedroom on March 30, 1999. The photographs had been downloaded and printed from a computer. Based on the photographs, the State charged Morrison with fifty counts of sexual exploitation of a minor. Morrison filed a motion to dismiss the charges, contending that section 76-5a-3(1) was unconstitutionally overbroad and vague on its face, that it could not constitutionally be applied to him, and that it impermissibly restricted his rights under the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. Morrison also moved to consolidate the fifty counts brought against him into a single count, arguing that the acts constituted a single criminal episode. The trial court denied both motions, and Morrison entered a conditional plea of guilty to twenty of the counts against him. The court sentenced Morrison to twenty concurrent one to fifteen year sentences and assessed a $25,000 fine against him. However, the court then stayed execution of this sentence, placing Morrison on three years' probation instead.