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Show Lee Elected To Two Statewide Positions Garfield County Attorney Wallace A. Lee was recently elected to the Utah Prosecution Council and the Advisory Board of the Statewide Association of Pub-, lie Attorneys (SWAP). Lee will fill the vacancy on both boards created cre-ated by the resignation of former Washington County Attorney Paul F. Graf, who recently accepted accept-ed a position with the Utah Attorney Attor-ney General's Office. Lee was elected on June 14, 1991, at a meeting of both boards in Salt Lake City, in which current members of the boards voted for a replacement for Graf. On the Utah Prosecution Council Lee will join Attorney General R. Paul Van Dam; Salt Lake County Attorney David E. Yocum; Murray City Attorney At-torney Randy Hart; Emery County Attorney Scott N. Johansen; Salt i. V - -111 IIW t Vl IIM tlmmimmmammmM Wallace A. Lee See Wallace A. Lee Page 4A Wallace Lee Elected To Two Posts From Pasre 1 Lake County Prosecutor Cheryl Luke; Cache County Attorney Gary O. McKean; Weber County Attorney Reed M. Richards; and State Commissioner of Public Safety Douglas Bodrero. All but Bodrero also serve on the Advisory Board of SWAP. Lee will represent prosecutors and public attorneys in southwestern southwest-ern Utah. The Utah Prosecution Council is a state funded organization organiza-tion housed in the Utah Attorney General's Office, which coordinates coordi-nates prosecutor training programs and continuing legal education for prosecutors, funds extraordinary prosecution expenses in individual counties, and is also involved in lobbying efforts for legislation important to prosecution and criminal crim-inal justice in the state. SWAP performs identical functions for public attorneys who provide legal advice to county commissions and litigate various civil matters in each county. One of the current legislative proposals with which Lee will become be-come involved is the proposal to create a statewide District Attorney Attor-ney System, which is currently under un-der study by a committee appointed appoint-ed by Governor Bangerter. The proposal would take the prosecution prosecu-tion function away from county attorneys and replace them with elected district attorneys, funded by the state. There are many proposals pro-posals concerning how many districts dis-tricts should be created and how many district attorneys there should be. Lee advocates a system which would allow a district attorney to be elected in each county which currently has a resident prosecutor. "Any other system would, in my opinion, erode the important and necessarily close working relationship rela-tionship between the police and prosecutor," said Lee. |