Torrey Green, center, talks to his lawyer Skye Lazaro, left, and private investigator E. Christian Warmsley during his rape trial, Monday, Jan. 7, 2019 in Brigham City, Utah.
Torrey Green, center, talks to his lawyer Skye Lazaro, left, and private investigator E. Christian Warmsley during his rape trial, Monday, Jan. 7, 2019 in Brigham City, Utah.
The Utah Supreme Court on Thursday upheld convictions against Torrey J. Green, a former Utah State University football player who filed an appeal after a jury convicted him of several sexual assault charges in 2019.
According to information from the Utah Office of the Attorney General, Green claimed in his appeal that each of the six cases against him should have been tried separately — “without informing jurors of his previous convictions.” He also “claimed that the trial court improperly admitted hearsay evidence and that his trial attorney performed ineffectively.”
The Utah Supreme Court rejected Green’s arguments, according to the news release, “concluding that Green’s trial was fair and that the six victims’ cases were tried correctly together.”
The news release said the “court’s landmark ruling” will be a boon to prosecutors in being able to admit evidence of similar acts of sexual assault against multiple victims in future sexual assault prosecutions.
Green, who was found guilty in January 2019 of attacking six women while a student at USU, was convicted of sexual assault, rape, forcible sexual abuse, sexual battery, and object rape against the six different women. The victims came forward in 2016, citing similar stories of meeting Green online, dating, and then being forced into having sex.
Green was a football player at Utah State University and subsequently left USU to attend the Atlanta Falcons training camp, according to the news release.
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