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Salt Lake City officer can be brought to trial in K-9 attack case, judge rules

Prosecutors argued the 2020 attack on an arrestee was not only “unreasonable,” but also “entirely unnecessary.”

(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) Salt Lake City K-9 officer Nickolas Pearce, left, watches body camera video from a 2020 arrest with his criminal defense attorney Nathan Evershed during Pearce's preliminary hearing before 3rd District Court Judge William K. Kendall on Tuesday, July 26, 2022. On Thursday, Dec. 15, 2022, a judge ruled there was sufficient evidence to send Pearce to trial for an aggravated assault charge stemming from the arrest.