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(KSL News) A defense attorney for Curtis Allgier has asked to be removed from the murder case claiming his loyalties are divided.
Allgier is accused of killing corrections official Stephen Anderson during an escape attempt last June.
Allgier's lawyer, Michael Peterson, says he was a longtime "workplace friend" of Anderson and that at least two other attorneys in the office of the Salt Lake Legal Defender Association have had "substantial emotional ties" to the victim.
The Salt Lake Tribune reports Peterson is now asking for the entire office to be disqualified in the case so that Allgier receives a fair trial.
