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SALT LAKE CITY — District Attorney Sim Gill and a defense attorney will join us to explain how they are going to handle all of the West Valley Police Department's dismissed cases. Plus, a steady stream of allegations have drenched Utah Attorney General John Swallow's office. We will discuss if and how he can salvage his political future. And rumblings in the GOP over a possible change to Utah's caucus system.
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The West Valley City police department is paying a heavy price for corruption allegations swirling in the community right now. The former Neighborhood Narcotics Unit partly relied on public trust in order to operate. That trust is now gone. The trust in the police department in general has suffered.
But there is a more practical cost, too: Lost time and money, to the Salt Lake District Attorney's office. So far, Sim Gill's office has had to dismiss 124 state and federal cases. Those cases involved low- to mid-level drug dealers and users. Gill's office is still reviewing approximately 400 cases. Sim Gill and president-elect of the Utah Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers Neal Hamilton joined Richard Piatt to discuss how the cases are going to be handled.
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The list of investigations targeting embattled Attorney General John Swallow keeps growing.
On Thursday KSL confirmed a new state investigation spearheaded by the Salt Lake and Davis County district attorneys. This one focuses on possible state charges centering on state employee ethics laws. That's in addition to a federal criminal probe and ethics complaints with the lieutenant Governor and Utah State bar.
We took a closer look at the implications of the Attorney General's situation with Kirk Jowers, of the Hinckley institute of politics, and Dennis Romboy of the Deseret News, who have been investigating each of the allegations.
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This week is a pivotal one for the Utah Republican Party. At the party's annual organizing convention yesterday, delegates elected a new executive director. They also debated changes to the well-established caucus convention system, which is how political candidates are picked.
Our panel discussed the future of the party, with the caveat that Sunday Edition was taped in advance of the convention.
Finally, this week Doug Wright offers his opinion about a new law that could shorten the wait for riders on two wheels.
