Carl Anderson prosecuted thousands of cases for the state. Now he's on your side.

One bad decision and now my license is on the line, my job's at risk, and I don't know if I'm going to lose everything over a single night.

A DUI in Utah hits you twice — once at the DMV (your license) and once in court (the charge). Both move on tight clocks. We get the police report, the body cam, the breath or blood evidence, and the calibration records. Sometimes that's how the charge gets reduced or dropped. Sometimes it's how we negotiate something you can actually live with.

They're calling it 'intent to distribute' but it was for me. The charge they're filing doesn't match what actually happened.

The gap between possession and possession-with-intent is enormous — one is often probation, the other is prison. We attack the search itself first (was the stop lawful? was the search lawful?), and where the evidence stands, we work on the right charge for the right facts — and on diversion or drug court when that's the path that actually helps.

The police only got one side of the story. I was defending myself — or my family — and now I'm the one being charged.

Assault cases live or die on the witnesses, the injuries, and the sequence. We get the 911 recording, the body cam, and the medical records before they disappear. Self-defense, defense of others, mutual combat, mistaken identity — the facts that actually happened need to be in front of the prosecutor before they decide what charges to file or what plea to offer.

The charge has the words 'domestic violence' on it and suddenly I can't go home, I can't see my kids, and my job is asking questions. I don't even know what I'm supposed to do tonight.

A DV charge in Utah triggers things a regular misdemeanor doesn't — no-contact orders, firearm restrictions, job and immigration consequences. We work the case from the first 24 hours: getting modified contact orders where possible, building the actual record of what happened, and making sure a single moment doesn't define the rest of your life.

This is going to follow me around forever. Every job application, every background check — for one stupid moment.

Theft and burglary charges are almost always about the long tail — what happens to your record, your jobs, your housing 5 years from now. We push for plea-in-abeyance, diversion, or reduction where the facts support it, so the case closes in a way that doesn't keep costing you.

This is the worst day of my life, and I have no idea what comes next.

When the stakes are this high, the case stops being one attorney's effort and becomes a team's. We retain investigators, forensic experts, and where appropriate co-counsel, and we work the case from the first interview onward as though we're going to trial — because preparing as though we are is the only way to get the right plea or the right verdict.

They've been investigating for months. There are boxes of documents. I don't even fully understand the theory yet — and I'm the one being charged with it.

White-collar cases turn on documents and intent. We work through the records the prosecution is relying on — emails, ledgers, transfers, returns — and identify where their theory has holes, where restitution might resolve it, and where intent simply isn't there. Federal or state, financial-license or criminal-record consequences both have to be on the table.

It's 'just' a traffic ticket, but my CDL is on the line — or my insurance just went up — or my security clearance has a question on the form.

Justice-court matters are small until they're not. Points on a commercial license, an unpaid citation that turns into a warrant, a minor misdemeanor that shows up on a job background check. We handle these efficiently — often without you having to take a day off work — and aim for outcomes that don't follow you around.

The trial is over and the result was wrong — or my old attorney missed something that should have changed everything.

Appeals are a different kind of lawyering — they're about the record and the law, not new witnesses. We read the full trial transcript, identify the issues that can actually be raised on appeal, and brief them with the appellate court's standards in mind. For Rule 23B and post-conviction relief, we work with new evidence, ineffective-assistance claims, or constitutional violations that didn't surface at trial.

That conviction is from a decade ago. I've moved on. I just want it off my record so I can stop checking that box on every application.

Utah's expungement rules changed substantially in recent years — what was ineligible before might be eligible now. We pull your full criminal history, walk through what qualifies under current law (including automatic Clean Slate), and file the petitions. Most clients are surprised how much of their past actually comes off.

I served my time. I've done everything they asked. But the registry still controls where I can live, where I can work, and how my family is treated.

Registry removal in Utah is its own statutory process — separate from expungement — and it depends on the offense, the time elapsed, and the post-conviction conduct. We assess whether you're eligible, prepare the petition, and represent you at the hearing. It's a narrow path but a real one.