Conviction upheld in cold case solved by bloody dollar bill

Conviction upheld in cold case solved by bloody dollar bill

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SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Supreme Court has affirmed the murder conviction of a man convicted of killing a Box Elder County gas station attendant 32 years ago.

Glen Howard Griffin, 58, was convicted of murder, a first-degree felony, in the 1984 death of Bradley Newell Perry. Prosecutors had sought the death penalty, but a jury voted to give him life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Perry had just turned 22 when he was killed while working at the family Texaco station in Perry, Box Elder County. Early on the morning of May 26, 1984, he was tied up in a back room, strangled, stabbed multiple times with a screwdriver and a knife, and his head was crushed by a 60-pound container.

The murder went unsolved for two decades until advances in DNA technology led to Griffin's arrest and eventual conviction.

Griffin appealed his conviction, claiming the DNA evidence was inadmissible as well as ineffective counsel.

The Utah Supreme Court this week upheld the state court's conviction, saying that Griffin had adequate representation, and that there was "overwhelming DNA evidence" against him and it was admitted correctly.

"We are pleased with the Utah Supreme Court’s decision to affirm Mr. Griffin’s conviction,” Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes said in a prepared statement. "Even after three decades, Bradley Perry and his family deserve justice and closure."

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