Legal Opinion
State v. Franks
Montana Supreme Court
Decided October 8, 2014No. DA 13-0385PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice McGRATH
¶1 Jason Dean Franks appeals from his conviction of felony sexual intercourse without consent in the Eleventh Judicial District Court, Flathead County. We reverse and remand for a new trial.
¶2 On appeal, we address whether the District Court abused its discretion when it denied Franks’s motion for a new trial.
PROCEDURAL AND FACTUAL BACKGROUND
¶3 On December 28, 2010, fifteen-year-old C.L. told her father that his former roommate, Jason Franks, had raped her when she" was eleven years old. The next day, C.L. and her father went to the Kalispell Police Department to report the allegation. During…
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