TIPTON v. MONTANA THIRTEENTH JUDICIAL DIST. COURT

OP 17-0678.

421 P.3d 780 (2018)

2018 MT 164

Ronald Dwight TIPTON, Petitioner, v. MONTANA THIRTEENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT and Honorable Mary Jane Knisely, District Judge, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Montana.

Submitted: May 1, 2018.

Decided: July 5, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For Petitioner: Robert L. Stephens, Jr. (argued), Southside Law Center, Billings, Montana.

For Respondents: Timothy C. Fox , Montana Attorney General, C. Mark Fowler (argued), Assistant Attorney General, Helena, Montana, Scott Twito , Yellowstone County Attorney, Billings, Montana.


¶ 1 In 2014, DNA testing linked Ronald Dwight Tipton to the 1987 unsolved rape of an eight-year-old Billings girl. The State charged Tipton with sexual intercourse without consent of a minor under 16 years old. Tipton sought dismissal of the charges because the applicable statute...

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