'There are people dead now that wouldn’t be dead': U.S. attorney for Utah says law change forced releases of criminals, including 2 killers

SALT LAKE CITY — John Huber was a line prosecutor in 2004 when he was able to secure a conviction of Abe Martinez that resulted in a 20-year federal prison sentence.But when Martinez, 44, walked away from a halfway house last week, went to the home of his grandparents in South Salt Lake and killed his 89-year-old grandmother, Rose Martinez, and seriously injured his 71-year-old stepgrandfather before police shot and killed him, Huber felt he could no longer remain quiet.The problem, he sai