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BRIGHAM CITY, Utah (AP) -- Attorneys for a man convicted of first-degree murder in a 1984 slaying are asking for a new trial.
In court documents, attorneys for Glenn Howard Griffin say an Ohio man may have murdered service station attendant Bradley Newell Perry. Griffin was convicted Nov. 14 and sentenced to life in prison without parole after a six-week trial.
Perry was bludgeoned and stabbed to death on May 26, 1984. Police say DNA testing linked Griffin to blood found on a dollar bill, which they say he gave as change to two men while pretending to be an attendant at a gas pump just after the killing.
Griffin was arrested in 2005, 21 years after the crime.
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Information from: Standard-Examiner
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