Torrey Green has been serving a 26-years-to-life prison sentence since a jury in 2019 convicted him of eight charges in connection with reports from six women. Now, he is asking the Utah Supreme Court to grant him a new trial.
Green is currently serving a prison sentence after a jury convicted him of eight sexual assault-related charges.
This was the main issue argued Wednesday in court, where the justices peppered the attorneys with questions for more than two hours. Green’s appellate attorney, Freya Johnson, argued Wednesday that the judge’s ruling and the subsequent consolidation request were errors. She said in the appeal that many of the women’s recollections lacked independence, because they did not report to police until after The Salt Lake Tribune publishedabout four women who had told police that Green had raped them. At that time, no action had been taken.
“The story that the state presented is fundamentally true,” he said. “Six women accused Green of sexual assault in a way that would be extraordinarily difficult for [them] to fabricate.”Because some of the women did not report to police until after The Tribune published its investigative report, prosecutors called several friends or family members of each victim to testify about times when she told them Green assaulted her.
They argue in his appeal that prosecutors painted the women as young and naive, while he was portrayed as a large, dangerous predator preying on young women. He was in his early 20s, his attorneys note, while most of the women were 18 or 19.
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