# State v. Pierre

> Utah Supreme Court · November 25, 1977 · 572 P.2d 1338

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9545273

## Case

- **Full name:** STATE of Utah, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. Dale S. PIERRE, Defendant and Appellant
- **Court:** Utah Supreme Court
- **Decided:** November 25, 1977
- **Citations:** 572 P.2d 1338; 1977 Utah LEXIS 1313
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Ellett
- **Judges:** Wilkins, Ellett, Crockett, Maughan, Hall
- **Cited by:** 81 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

- No negative treatment found by the automated citator. That is not the same as a confirmation that the case is good law; read the citing cases.
- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9545273

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding that the murder of three individuals within close proximity of two survivors weighed in favor of applying the aggravator
- discussing whether the events occurred in a "brief span of time" such that they formed a "concatenating series of events"

## Opinion text

ELLETT, Chief Justice
(concurring):
I concur in the opinion, but desire to state that I lament and deplore the need for such a long opinion necessarily caused by rulings of the Supreme Court of the United States in cases that I consider to be outside the jurisdiction of that Court. I commend the laborious opinion by Justice Wilkins as being a proper answer to all possible objections to the death penalty in this case.

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