West Jordan • A judge is poised to decide whether the state should have to pay $1.1 million in legal bills racked up by former Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff during the two years he was being prosecuted on public corruption charges.
Shurtleff’s case was dismissed in 2016 on the prosecutor’s motion — a request that Shurtleff’s attorneys claim came at the direction of current Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes, even though his office was not handling the case.
Reyes’ office denies he ever meddled in the case and says state law prohibits reimbursement because Shurtleff wasn’t in office when the matter was dismissed.