2006 Utah Code - 76-3-408 — Repeat and habitual sex offenders -- Life imprisonment without parole on third conviction.

     76-3-408.   Repeat and habitual sex offenders -- Life imprisonment without parole on third conviction.
     Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a person who has been convicted in two or more separate prosecutions of any sexual offense which, if committed in Utah or any other state or federal jurisdiction, would contain elements sufficient to constitute any of the offenses described in Sections 76-5-402, 76-5-402.1, 76-5-402.2, 76-5-402.3, 76-5-403, 76-5-403.1, 76-5-404, 76-5-404.1, and 76-5-405, shall, upon a conviction of any offense set forth in this section, be sentenced to a term of imprisonment for life without the possibility of parole if the existence of the prior felony convictions has been charged and admitted or found true in the action for the new offense and if the prior felony convictions were entered before the commission of the new offense. A prior felony conviction can be alleged for purposes of this section only if it was entered before the actual commission of the crime which constitutes the basis for the next felony conviction, subsequently entered against the accused, which is also alleged under this section.

Amended by Chapter 18, 1984 General Session