Gregory K. Orme

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Gregory Keith Orme
Judge of the Utah Court of Appeals
Assumed office
January 18, 1987
Appointed byNorman H. Bangerter
Personal details
Born (1953-12-14) December 14, 1953 (age 70)
Boston, Massachusetts
EducationUniversity of Utah
George Washington University

Gregory Keith Orme (born December 14, 1953) is one of the seven judges serving on the Utah Court of Appeals.

Early life and education

Orme was born December 14, 1953, in

San Antonio, Texas. He graduated from the University of Utah in 1975 with a degree in Political Science and a Certificate in International Relations. He then attended law school at George Washington University. While in Washington, D.C., Orme worked for the United States Agency for International Development in the Office of General Counsel. He received his Juris Doctor, with high honors, in 1978.[1]

Early legal career

After graduating law school, Orme began working at the

10th Circuit
Court of Appeals.

In August 1979 Orme finished his clerkship and returned to work at Van Cott. He worked primarily in commercial litigation, handling cases for clients such as Deer Valley Resort, Jackson Hole Ski Corporation, Huntsman Chemical, and KeyBank. Orme was made a partner at the firm in 1984. He was a recipient of the Utah State Bar's Young Lawyer of the Year award in 1986.[2]

Nomination and appointment

In 1984, voters approved an amendment to Article VIII of the

appellate process.[3]

In late 1986, Orme applied for a position on the soon to be formed court. He was one of seven selected by Governor

Chief Justice of the Utah Supreme Court, Gordon R. Hall, on January 18, 1987.[4] Judge Orme and the other six original members of the court then began to handle both cases that had been waiting for years to be argued, as well as new appeals from trial courts and administrative agencies.[5]

In a 2007 article in the Utah Bar Journal, Orme gave his perspective on the twenty-year history of the Court of Appeals, and the difficulties surmounted in developing an efficient appellate system for the state of Utah.

Judicial career

Judge Orme served as Presiding Judge for the Court of Appeals from 1995-1996. He was elected to the Judicial Council representing the Court of Appeals in 1986 and served two terms. He served six years on the Ethics Advisory Committee, and ten years on the Judicial Performance Evaluation Committee.[2]

Orme is the judicial advisor to the Utah Bar Journal and has made numerous written contributions to it, particularly with regard to professionalism and the behavior expected of lawyers.[6][7] He is also a member of the executive committee of the Utah State Bar's Appellate Practice Section. He was made a fellow of the American Bar Foundation in 2005.[8] In 2007, he received the Utah Bar's Judge of the Year award.[9]

Having been elected in 2007 and again in 2010, he again sits on the Judicial Council as the Court of Appeals representative. He also serves on the Utah Supreme Court's Advisory Committee on the Rules of Appellate Procedure, the Advisory Committee on Professionalism (formed in 2002[10]) and the Utah Sentencing Commission. He is the only original member of the court who still serves on it.

Significant opinions

[11][12]

In re M.B., 198 P.3d 1007 (UT Ct. App. 2008) [13]

M. B. was convicted of the crimes of vehicular burglary, theft, and unlawful possession of burglary tools. He appealed his convictions which grew out of a 2007 incident in which two men broke into a truck and stole the stereo and compact discs inside. At that time M.B. was sitting in the getaway vehicle across the street from the driveway the truck was parked in. The owner of the truck awoke to see the men exiting the car with the stereo and saw M.B. sitting in the getaway car. The police were notified and the men were caught a short time later. M.B. argued that his conviction should be overturned because no evidence was submitted that implicated M.B. as actively encouraging or intentionally aiding the two men in the commission of the crime. M.B.'s counsel also argued that the charge of unlawful possession of burglary tools should be dismissed because they were located within the vehicle, and since the vehicle had other occupants, there was reasonable doubt as to whether M.B. constructively possessed the screwdriver and gloves found inside the getaway vehicle. The Court of Appeals reversed the trial court's decision.

B.A.M. v. Salt Lake County, 87 P.3d 710 (UT Ct. App. 2004)[14]

B.A.M. had dedicated a plot of land to be developed, and the

writ of certiorari
to the Utah Supreme Court, which, in a manner almost entirely consistent with Judge Orme's dissent, affirmed the court of appeals decision in part while reversing in part."[16]

State v. Chavez, 41 P.3d 1137 (UT Ct. App. 2002)[17]

Chavez was convicted of attempted rape of a child based on the testimony of the victim and another witness, Joseph Young. Young gave testimony that Chavez confessed to the crime while they were both in jail. In cross examination, defense counsel discovered that Young was already incarcerated, was a Drug Enforcement Administration informant at the time, and had served as a police informant at least twenty times prior to this occasion. He was also convicted of numerous felonies involving dishonesty. The trial court prohibited the defense from asking any questions about his current incarceration or about his work for the DEA. The appellant argued that allowing the witness to testify while restricting the questions that the defense could ask was a violation of the constitutional right to confront one's accusers. Judge Orme wrote the unanimous opinion for the court. The court determined that because the prosecution had no physical evidence to prove the crime, and relied solely on the testimony of the witnesses, the credibility of the witnesses had to be examined. Because the victim gave inconsistent statements to police and to the court, Young's testimony may have been the integral component in convicting Chavez. The restriction on cross-examination of Young was ruled to be prejudicial and the Court of Appeals reversed the conviction and remanded for a new trial.

State v. Wanosik, 31 P3d 615 (UT Ct. App. 2001)[18]

Wanosik pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor drug offenses, but failed to appear at sentencing. He filed an appeal arguing that the sentencing should not have taken place in his absence and that the trial court erred in sentencing him. The Court of Appeals ruled that Wanosik had no basis to expect the trial court not to proceed in his absence after the court had informed him of the date and time of sentencing. However, the trial court did fail to hear any information relevant to sentencing from either the defense counsel or the prosecutor, and therefore violated Wanosik's Due Process rights in failing to base its sentencing decisions on information presented to it. The Court of Appeals vacated the sentences, and remanded for resentencing. The state appealed to the Supreme Court, which affirmed the Court of Appeals decision.[19]

State v. Singer, 815 P.2d 1303 (UT Ct. App. 1991)[20]

John Timothy Singer, son of

Miranda rights
. The argument that the agents had begun discussing their families to exploit a weakness in Singer was rejected by the court, which found that the discussion between the agents was not unusual after both had spent a long time away from their homes in different states. The Court of Appeals affirmed the trial court's denial of the motion to suppress Singer's testimony.

References

  1. ^ "GW Magazine". www.gwu.edu.
  2. ^ a b c "Utah Courts - Judges' Biographies". www.utcourts.gov.
  3. ^ William C. Vickrey, Timothy M. Shea, House Bill 100 and the Utah Court of Appeals: A Blueprint for Judicial Reform, Utah State Bar Journal (Fall-Winter 1985)
  4. ^ Salt Lake Tribune, January 18th, 1987, B1-B2
  5. ^ "The Utah Court of Appeals – Twenty Years Later (Utah Bar Journal)". Archived from the original on 2011-07-28. Retrieved 2010-11-15.
  6. ^ "Standard 11 - Ex Parte Communications (Utah Bar Journal)". Archived from the original on 2011-07-28. Retrieved 2010-11-15.
  7. ^ "Just a Few Little Things (Utah Bar Journal)". Archived from the original on 2011-07-28. Retrieved 2010-11-15.
  8. ^ "Documents" (PDF). www.americanbarfoundation.org.
  9. ^ "2007 Utah State Bar Award Winners (Utah Bar Journal)". Archived from the original on 2011-02-21. Retrieved 2010-11-15.
  10. ^ "State Bar News (Utah Bar Journal)". Archived from the original on 2011-07-28. Retrieved 2010-11-15.
  11. ^ "Decisions from the Utah Court of Appeals, 2008 (Utah Bar Journal)". Archived from the original on 2010-10-29. Retrieved 2010-11-15.
  12. ^ "Important Utah Decisions, 2002 (Utah Bar Journal)". Archived from the original on 2011-07-28. Retrieved 2010-11-15.
  13. ^ State ex rel M.B., 198 P3d 1007, (Ut. Ct. App. 2008) https://caselaw.findlaw.com/ut-court-of-appeals/1425064.html
  14. ^ B.A.M. v. Salt Lake County, 87 P3d 710, (Ut. Ct. App. 2004) http://www1.co.weber.ut.us/surveyor/S-LS-Data/Survey-laws/Cases/bam022004.htm Archived 2011-07-16 at the Wayback Machine
  15. ^ "Judge Finds a Typo-Prone Lawyer Guilty of Bad Writing". www.cse.buffalo.edu.
  16. ^ B.A.M. v. Salt Lake County, 128 P3d 1161, (Ut. Sup. Ct. 2006)
  17. ^ State of Utah v. Chavez, 41 P3d 1137, 2002 (Ut. Ct. App. 2002) https://caselaw.findlaw.com/ut-court-of-appeals/1297018.html
  18. ^ State of Utah v. Wanosik, 31 P3d 615, 2001 (Ut. Ct. App. 2001) http://www.utcourts.gov/opinions/appopin/wanosik.htm
  19. ^ State of Utah v. Wanosik, 79 P3d 937, (Ut. Sup. Ct. 2003)
  20. ^ State of Utah v. Singer, 815 P2d 1303, 1991 (Ut. Ct. App. 1991)

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