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Utah Supreme Court orders new trial for man on death row after police misconduct surfaces

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Douglas Stewart Carter , 69 , was sentenced to death in 1985 after a jury found him guilty of murdering Eva Olesen .

Prosecutors convicted Carter , a Black man, based on a written confession and two witnesses who said he had bragged about killing.

In 2019 , the Utah Supreme Court sent Carter ’s case back to a lower court for review after the witnesses said police and prosecutors coached them to lie in court.

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