Court Opinion

ID: 9627913
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 08:58:45.321628+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:44:23.910240
License: Public Domain

JACKSON, Judge
(concurring):
The opinions in this case demonstrate that Utah Code Ann. § 76-6-408(1) (1986), modeled after section 223.6(1) of the Model Penal Code, is not artfully drafted. The Utah Supreme Court has indentified two separate offenses in the statute. State v. Pappas, 705 P.2d 1169 (Utah 1985); State v. Lamm, 606 P.2d 229, 231 (Utah 1980); State v. Murphy, 617 P.2d 399, 401 (Utah 1980). It is our function to follow those decisions until the Court rules otherwise, or until the legislature revises the statute.