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STATE v. WARDLE

No. 20230761-CA.

561 P.3d 1175 (2024)

2024 UT App 181

STATE of Utah, Appellee, v. Douglas Lawrence WARDLE, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of Utah.

Filed December 12, 2024.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sarah J. Carlquist and Amy Powers, Attorneys for Appellant.

Sean D. Reyes, Salt Lake City, and Jonathan S. Bauer, Attorneys for Appellee.

Judge Ryan M. Harris authored this Opinion, in which Judges Gregory K. Orme and John D. Luthy concurred.

Opinion

¶1 The State has charged Douglas Lawrence Wardle with raping his then-ten-year-old niece (Niece) on two occasions in 2001. The charges were filed in 2021, soon after Niece reported the rapes to the police, telling them that she had "blocked" the incidents "out of her mind" for many years and had only "recently...

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