Creighton Horton, Attorney General's Office

Mr. Horton is a career prosecutor and a 1976 graduate of the UCLA School of Law. He worked for nine years in the Salt Lake County District Attorney’s Office before joining the Attorney General’s Office. He is currently Chief of the Violent Crimes & Special Prosecutions Section of the Attorney General’s Office. He also serves on the Utah Professionalism Liaison Committee as the representative from Utah Prosecution Council.

Throughout his career, Mr. Horton has been actively involved in shepherding legislation to improve the criminal justice system. In the past several years, he has worked to pass laws to provide an avenue for exoneration for those who have been convicted of crimes they did not commit. In 2001, he helped draft and promote Utah’s DNA Actual Innocence law.

This year, working collaboratively with attorneys from the Rocky Mountain Innocence Center, he drafted and testified in support of S.B. 16, “Exoneration and Innocence Assistance.” The bill’s passage culminated a two-year effort to broaden avenues for exoneration beyond DNA evidence, and to provide financial assistance to all those who have been wrongfully convicted and imprisoned.