Court upholds conviction for man in 2012 smoke shop murder

SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Court of Appeals upheld a conviction Thursday for a man serving a life sentence in prison for gunning down a man in a Salt Lake smoke shop.Yelfris Sosa-Hurtado, 31, was found guilty of aggravated murder, a first-degree felony, in the death of 26-year-old Steven Guadalupe Chavez. He was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.Sosa-Hurtado appealed the conviction, arguing against prosecutors' stance that the shooting was an aggravated crime bec