Ukrainian judges visit Salt Lake City

Ukrainian judges visit Salt Lake City


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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Five judges from Eastern Europe are descending on courthouses in Salt Lake City this week -- but it isn't a United Nations takeover plot.

The Ukrainian judges are learning how the U.S. dispenses justice.

They'll sit in on a federal jury trial -- Ukraine doesn't use juries to decide cases -- and visit a jail.

The judges also will take in a Utah Jazz game and visits to Temple Square and the Utah Olympic Park.

The highest-ranking visitor is Valeriy Danchuk of Ukraine's Supreme Court.

On Tuesday's schedule is lunch with the Salt Lake Rotary Club.

The visit was sponsored by the Washington, D.C.-based Open World Leadership Center.

(Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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