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Utah House approves conviction‑integrity unit bill after extended debate, 44–28
Summary
After extended floor debate about duplicating court remedies and protecting the jury system, the Utah House passed second substitute House Bill 324 to allow conviction‑integrity units and procedures for post‑conviction review, 44–28.
Representative Judkins presented second substitute House Bill 324, describing the bill’s genesis in contested cases where newly discovered evidence or procedural problems suggest a conviction may be fundamentally flawed. He told the chamber a case out of Missouri and local experience motivated the proposal and said conviction‑integrity units (CIUs) would provide a fact‑based, independent review process and limited court remedies (vacatur, new trial, new sentence) but would not create monetary remedies…
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