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Utah man found guilty of aggravated murder, agrees to life sentence without parole

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A man was found guilty of aggravated murder. As part of his guilty plea, Jacob Holt Johnson agreed to be sentenced to life without the possibility of parole. In December 2024, an officer with the Bluffdale Police Department found Johnson unconscious in a white Jeep parked across multiple stalls at a gas station.

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