Matthew T. Johnson, another former deputy Davis County attorney • received a public reprimand from the Bar after a defense attorney filed a complaint accusing him of lying to the judge during an aggravated assault trial to gain an unfair advantage. The judge declared a mistrial during the November 2012 trial, according to court records, after Johnson tried to get a witness to acknowledge hearing a key statement made by the defendant, which was actually heard by someone else who had not been called to testify. Johnson resigned from his position shortly after the mistrial and a subsequent investigation. His attorney has said that the then-prosecutor did not intentionally lie, but that it was an attribution mistake made because he was not adequately prepared.