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Ashley Hayes Reporting From child molestation to kidnapping to murder. Several defendants are in Utah courts today. And while some cases are wrapping up, others are just getting started.
All of these cases Eyewitness News has been following from start to finish. You may remember the road rage murder in Elberta last September. Today the defendant is being sentenced.
In Provo this morning, Judge Lynn Davis will sentence illegal immigrant Sergio Ramos Trujillo for shooting and killing his co-worker Jorge Corona on an Elberta dairy farm last September.
During the trial last month, witnesses testified the two men fought on the highway a day before the murder.
Last month, a jury convicted the Trujillo of first degree murder. Trujillo will serve his prison term in the United States before he is deported to Mexico.
In St. George, a judge will sentence Tina Eileen Roberts for her involvement in the kidnapping death of Trisha Stubbs.
Roberts and Kyle Jensen pleaded guilty to aggravated kidnapping earlier this year. In exchange prosecutors dropped murder charges against them.
Last week prosecutors filed capital murder charges against a third suspect, Jack Daniel Brown. Prosecutors say Brown bound, gagged and beat Stubbs before shooting her. They say Brown killed Stubbs to keep her from revealing incriminating evidence about him.
While those cases are wrapping up with the defendants' sentencings, an elementary school teacher's legal battle is just beginning in Cache County.
Logan Elementary school teacher Allen Roy Willey is out on administrative leave while he faces charges involving child molestation.
Yesterday a judge ordered the teacher to stand trial on nine counts of aggravated child sex abuse.
This year a former Wilson Elementary School student came forward claiming Willey abused him when he was a fourth-grader in Willey's class more than a decade ago.
Eyewitness News recently found out Willey was accused of inappropriate behavior 14 years ago in another school district. In 1992, a parent filed a complaint against Willey following an incident with her son, but it was dismissed for lack of evidence.
Logan police say more victims are coming forward.
Willey, 51, will be back in court for scheduling next month. If convicted he could face life in prison.
