Utah Supreme Court September 29, 2000, 990016 (State v. Litherland)

DURRANT, Justice:

T1 Defendant Christopher Litherland appeals his convictions of rape and forcible sexual abuse. He asserts that his trial counsel was ineffective for failing to request that two prospective jurors be dismissed for cause or for failing to remove them with perempto

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ry challenges, and that the trial court committed plain error in failing to remove, sua sponte, those same jurors.