Salt Lake Tribune · Oct 14, 2019
Utah death-row inmate’s appeal remains ongoing
(Trent Nelson | Tribune file photo) Douglas Lovell at an evidentiary hearing in Ogden on Monday, Aug. 5, 2019. A jury in 2015 sentenced Douglas Lovell to be executed for killing 39-year-old Joyce Yost in 1985. Lovell has been appealing the decision.Ogden • Court hearings for a death-row inmate appealing based on his contention that he had ineffective counsel and that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints meddled in his trial are taking longer than expected.
The hearings for Douglas Lovell's appeal were expected to be wrapped up by August, but additional days have been scheduled for late October and early November, the Standard-Examiner newspaper in Ogden reported Sunday.