The state's top court heard lengthy arguments on Wednesday in the case of a former Utah State University football player convicted of multiple counts of rape.
Torrey Green is appealing his 2019 conviction by a jury. He is currently serving 26 years-to-life in prison for rape and sexual battery. In a hearing before the Utah Supreme Court, his lawyers argued that the numerous women's cases against him should never have been consolidated into one.
"Kind of the colloquial way of framing it would be, what are the odds, what’s the likelihood this would happen? So it’s an attempt to rebut maybe a suggestion of coincidence," Chief Justice Durrant said. "I think it generally is enough to have the defense’s theory and it’s explored in some way through cross-examination or argument," she said.
"The likelihood that so many women would be able to independently fabricate similar claims against him was exceedingly low and fundamentally, at the end of the day, the victims were not alone," he told the justices.
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