28-03-2018 22:19 via sltrib.com

Judge ‘beyond angry’ after Corrections workers withheld evidence, allowing Utah killer to avoid death penalty

Manti • A Utah prisoner — who was weeks away from a trial where jurors would have decided whether he should be executed for killing his cellmate — was instead sentenced on Wednesday to spend the rest of his life in prison.Steven Douglas Crutcher, 36, admitted last May that he killed 62-year-old Roland Cardona-Gueton inside their shared cell at the Gunnison prison in 2013.A weekslong sentencing hearing was expected to begin on April 9 — but prosecutors on Wednesday suddenly
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