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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A judge won't overturn a murder conviction in the case of a Salt Lake City doctor expected to spend at least 28 years in prison in the death of his ex-wife.
Judge James Blanch handed down the ruling Monday denying arguments that the case against 52-year-old John Brickman Wall was weak and circumstantial.
Wall responded by filing notice that he would take his case to the Utah Court of Appeals.
He was convicted of attacking cancer researcher Uta von Schwedler with a knife, dosing her with an anti-anxiety drug Xanax and drowning her in 2011.
Defense attorneys countered that the evidence shows she likely killed herself.
Wall was sentenced up to life in prison, and a spokesman for the Utah parole board says Wall won't have his first parole hearing until April of 2043.
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