The Appellate Group

State v. Cano

State v. Cano, 2026 UT App 154 (Mortensen, J.)

Criminal Law

The Utah Court of Appeals held:

(1) Trial counsel did not perform deficiently by not objecting on hearsay grounds to Nurse testifying about the victim’s description of the assault.
(2) Trial counsel did not perform deficiently by not objecting to Nurse’s report going with the jury into deliberations.
(3) Trial counsel did not perform deficiently by not objecting to Nurse’s testimony about the effect of trauma on memory.


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