- A lawsuit seeks $20M for a teen’s alleged wrongful prosecution, conviction and incarceration after the conviction was overturned and the case dismissed.
- A 14-year-old was charged with murder after his attorneys claim he was the victim of an armed robbery in August 2023.
- Salt Lake County Attorney Sim Gill said the lawsuit seems politically motivated, and the attorney who filed it previously ran against him.
SALT LAKE CITY — A lawsuit filed on Tuesday in federal court asked for over $20 million for a woman and her son, claiming he was “maliciously prosecuted” and “improperly incarcerated,” spending over 18 months in custody when his conviction was later overturned and his case dismissed.
The legal filing says the boy, then a 14-year-old high school freshman, was “the victim of an armed robbery” on Aug. 17, 2023, at Scottsdale Park, and defended himself with a knife, ultimately causing the death of Niusami Auela, 24.
It claims the Salt Lake County District Attorney’s Office knew the boy “had been robbed at gunpoint by a 24-year-old adult and was defending himself and his friends,” but continued to prosecute him…