BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - The Montana Supreme Court has rejected an appeal brought by a man sentenced to 22 consecutive life sentences for raping three women and attempting to rape a fourth.
The Billings Gazette reports (https://bit.ly/2bU5Xx3 ) that Toby Eugene Griego appealed his case over claims that he didn’t receive a fair trial because of pretrial publicity in Yellowstone County. He argued that the trial should’ve been moved because of articles from the Billings newspaper, including ones that gave women safety tips in the weeks before Griego’s arrest.
The state’s high court ruled Tuesday that relocating the trial would have had no merit.
Griego was convicted of 27 felony counts in 2014 after three women reported being bound and gagged and threatened with various weapons.
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Information from: The Billings Gazette, https://www.billingsgazette.com
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