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SALT LAKE CITY — The trial of former Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff has been pushed back to the fall.
On Friday, 3rd District Judge Elizabeth Hruby-Mills agreed to push the start of Shurtleff's trial to Oct. 25 to give his attorneys more time to look over evidence from federal investigators. His trial was originally scheduled to begin May 10.
Shurtleff and former Utah Attorney General John Swallow are accused of illegally accepting gifts, obstructing justice and official misconduct. Their cases are being tried separately.
In December, Hruby-Mills canceled Swallow's April 2016 trial without setting a new date after Swallow's attorney, Scott Williams, received a large volume of material from the FBI and asked for more time to go through it. Both the defense and prosecution had been fighting the Department of Justice to turn over all the evidence it gathered in its abandoned 2013 investigation of both men.
Shurtleff has pleaded not guilty to allegations that he accepted improper gifts like beach vacations from businessmen in trouble with regulators.
