- The Utah Court of Appeals upheld Spencer Greenway’s murder conviction for killing Adam Cross.
- Greenway’s appeal argued his attorneys should have objected to showing texts and jail calls to the jury where he made unrelated threats.
- Greenway killed Cross, his friend, in West Jordan after accusing him of having an affair with his girlfriend.
SALT LAKE CITY — An appellate court said a West Jordan man was rightly convicted of murdering his former best friend, whom he accused of having an affair with his girlfriend.
Spencer Greenway was sentenced on Dec. 9, 2022, to 15 years to life in the Utah State Prison after a jury found him guilty of murder, a first-degree felony, for causing the death of Adam Cross, 27, at his home in the early morning on April 21, 2020, in West Jordan.
Greenway argued in his appeal of the conviction that his attorneys should have objected to some messages and jail phone calls being shown to the jury in his trial. Utah Court of Appeals judges ruled in an opinion published on Thursday that Greenway did not prove his attorneys’ actions caused him prejudice…