Utah courts face trial backlog because of COVID-19
Utah State Courts
and last updated 2021-01-19 17:42:45-05
SALT LAKE CITY â The Utah State Court system faces a backlog of jury trials because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the state legislature was told. We have been able to largely keep pace, at all court levels, with our pre-pandemic caseload, Utah Supreme Court Chief Justice Matthew Durrant told the Utah State Legislature during his annual State of the Judiciary address.
But in his videotaped remarks, delivered remotely because of the pandemic, Chief Justice Durrant said he had concerns about so many delays because of the deadly virus.