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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Authorities say a convicted murderer who sent a razor blade to a judge from prison won't be charged because it was an accident.
The Salt Lake Tribune reports (http://bit.ly/1e8zC2w) that Utah County prosecutors determined Ramon Somoza sent the razor blade on accident with other legal documents.
Prosecutor Chad Grunander says Somoza, who represents himself in his case, doesn't have access to white-out in prison and uses razor blades to correct mistakes in his legal filings.
Grunander says they didn't file charges because they could not prove the incident was an intentional threat. Somoza apologized to the judge last week.
Somoza was convicted of first-degree murder in September 2011 for the 2009 killing of Jesus Landin. He is asking for a new trial and says his lawyers made several mistakes.
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