Gregory Orme
1987 - Present
2027
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Gregory Orme is a judge of the Utah Court of Appeals. He assumed office on January 18, 1987. His current term ends on January 3, 2027.
Orme ran for re-election for judge of the Utah Court of Appeals. He won in the retention election on November 3, 2020.
Orme was appointed to the Utah Court of Appeals by Governor Norman Bangerter in January of 1987, when the court was first created.[1][2]
Education
Orme received his undergraduate degree from the University of Utah in 1975 and his J.D. from George Washington University in 1978.[1]
Career
Orme began his legal career as a law clerk to Judge Monroe McKay of the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals. He then worked as a partner of the law firm VanCott, Bagley, Cornwall & McCarthy before joining the court of appeals in 1987.[1]
Elections
2020
Utah Court of Appeals
Gregory Orme was retained to the Utah Court of Appeals on November 3, 2020 with 80.0% of the vote.
Retention Vote |
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Votes |
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80.0
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994,542 | ||
No |
20.0
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248,153 | |||
Total Votes |
1,242,695 | ||||
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2014
Orme was retained to the Utah Court of Appeals with 76.6 percent of the vote on November 4, 2014. [3]
Performance evaluations
The Utah Judicial Performance Evaluation Commission, following a 2014 survey, recommended that Judge Orme be Retained. The full report is available here.
Campaign themes
2020
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Gregory Orme did not complete Ballotpedia's 2020 Candidate Connection survey.
Noteworthy cases
Convictions for sex assault overturned (2015)
David Deng Akok and John Atem Jok were accused of sexually assaulting a woman in her apartment in September 2012. The woman claimed that she spent a friendly evening with Jok and Akok. The three became intoxicated, and the woman fell asleep with both men still in her apartment. She claimed to awaken to find Jok fondling her. She asked him to stop, and he allegedly shoved his hand down her pants. She also claimed Akok raped her after Jok finished his assault. She went to a hospital where there was evidence corroborating her story, but doctors at the hospital were unable to affirmatively conclude the woman had been raped. Jok and Akok maintained throughout their arrest and trial that they engaged in a consensual sexual encounter with the woman.
At trial, a prosecutor allegedly used emotion to appeal to the jury during closing arguments. The record in the case reflects that the prosecutor told the jury that the two men had already taken advantage of the woman once and, if the jury did not convict the men, she would be taken advantage of again. Because the statement was made during the rebuttal portion of closing statements, the defense did not have an opportunity to respond or let the jury know that the prosecutor's comments were inappropriate. When the defense objected to the statement outside the presence of the jury and requested that Judge Ann Boyden declare a mistrial, she refused. Boyden did, however, attempt to cure the prejudice to the defendants by calling the jury back from deliberations to inform them that they could not use the prosecutor's statements as substantive proof during their deliberations.
The jury ultimately returned guilty verdicts for both men in the case. Akok was found guilty of rape, which is a first-degree felony in Utah. Jok was found guilty of two counts of forcible sex abuse, which is a second-degree felony. Both men were found guilty of the class C misdemeanor of intoxication. Attorneys for Jok and Akok appealed the convictions to the Utah Court of Appeals. They claimed that the prosecutor used emotion to distract the jury from their duty to make an impartial decision based on the law.
Judge Gregory Orme wrote the opinion for the panel. He wrote that the curative instruction attempted by Boyden was ineffective as it lacked real substance and force. Further, the court found that there was a "reasonable likelihood that, in the absence of the prosecutor's improper statement, there would have been a more favorable result" for Jok and Akok.[4] Akok's rape conviction was overturned, as was Jok's forcible sexual abuse conviction. Orme wrote that the Court of Appeals had no confidence in the verdict and sent it back to Judge Boyden for retrial. The opinion of the court also strongly encouraged separate trials for the two defendants to avoid prejudice.
Articles:
See also
2020 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Utah Courts, "Official biography of Judge Orme," accessed September 26, 2014
- ↑ Utah Courts, "Overview of the Utah Court of Appeals," accessed September 26, 2014
- ↑ Utah Elections, "2014 Candidate Filings," accessed March 27, 2014
- ↑ Deseret News, "Convictions of 2 in S.L. sex assault case overturned by appeals court," April 16, 2015
Federal courts:
Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals • U.S. District Court: District of Utah • U.S. Bankruptcy Court: District of Utah
State courts:
Utah Supreme Court • Utah Court of Appeals • Utah District Courts • Utah Juvenile Courts • Utah Justice Courts
State resources:
Courts in Utah • Utah judicial elections • Judicial selection in Utah
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