A key witness in the public-corruption case against former Utah Attorney General John Swallow filed a lawsuit Thursday against Salt Lake County prosecutors, alleging they had him unconstitutionally jailed in order to sway his testimony in the state’s favor.
Former Chief Deputy Attorney General Kirk Torgensen’s lawsuit names District Attorney Sim Gill, in addition to deputy district attorneys Chou Collins, Samuel P. Sutton, Fred Burmeister and investigator Cortney Nelson. Gill declined to comment on the lawsuit Thursday night because he hadn’t yet seen it.
Torgensen was incarcerated on a material witness warrant in January 2017.