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Sunday, June 22, 2025

DA Sim Gill emails staff, dismissing whistleblower allegations as sensationalistic - kjzz.com

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — The attorney for a 15-year-old boy filed a motion requesting a juvenile court judge to disqualify the Salt Lake County District Attorney’s Office from the case on the heels of a 2News Investigation. Attorney Nathan Evershed motioned Juvenile Court Judge David Johnson to disqualify the entire office, including District Attorney Sim Gill, for alleged prosecutorial misconduct. A virtual court hearing was held today, where both sides presented arguments, after filing motions, but Judge Johnson said he would take it under advisement and issue a ruling on the motion within 30 days.

What’s more, 2News Investigates exposed for the first time evidence that the prosecutor who was assigned to the case after Adrianna Davis was removed, made an admission to the whistleblower who came forward to Chief Investigative Reporter Wendy Halloran last month, that the teen should not have been charged with murder to begin with.

In March, 2New Investigates exposed allegations of an inappropriate relationship between Adrianna Davis, the prosecutor who charged Emiliano with murder in a self-defense case and West Valley City Police Detective Josue Llil who was a key detective on the case. Emiliano nor his first attorney, Thomas Weber, knew about this before he took a plea deal for manslaughter and was sentenced to ten years in juvenile prison.

On August 17, 2023, at Scottsdale Park in West Valley City, Emiliano was robbed at gunpoint by 24-year-old Niusami Auelua, an...



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