BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - A Montana man convicted of fatally shooting a woman who was calling 911 to report him is asking for a new trial.
The Billings Gazette reported Thursday the state Supreme Court is expected to rule on Richard Douglas Reinert’s request by mid-summer.
Reinert was convicted of deliberate homicide in 2015 in the death of Jessica Stephenson. Prosecutors said Stephenson was calling 911 trying to protect Reinert’s wife from him.
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She was shot in Reinert’s Billings Heights home.
Reinert claimed self-defense.
In his appeal, Reinert argued the trial court should have barred some of the evidence against him. He also argued he should have had been given access sooner to a letter calling into question the credibility of one of the state’s witnesses.
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Information from: The Billings Gazette, http://www.billingsgazette.com
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