![]() ![]() Court documents say the dollar bill was turned over to an officer, and police later collected multiple hairs from inside the store. The students noticed one of the bills had a drop of blood on it that looked fresh, and they sped down Highway 89 to a pay phone to call police. The student gave a $5 bill to the man, who returned with the pack and four dollars in change those bills were among the ones that the first student had used to pay for the gas, court records say. When the second student started heading toward the station to get cigarettes, the man stopped him and said he would get them. One of the students gave the man five $1 bills for gas and both saw what looked like dried blood on his clothes, according to court documents. Two Utah State University students who stopped at the station in the early morning hours say a man came outside and offered to help pump the gas for them. Perry was working the graveyard shift at a gas station near Brigham City on May 26, 1984, when he was tied up, bludgeoned with a soda canister and repeatedly stabbed with a screw driver, according to court documents. ![]() Utah Assistant Attorney General John Nielsen had countered that authorities kept track of the evidence and that Griffin had multiple experienced attorneys defending him before, during and after his trial. In addition, Vandenberg said a lawyer who represented Griffin at a critical phase in his trial conducted no investigation into a key prosecution witness. She had argued at a February hearing that the DNA evidence in the case had chain-of-custody problems and that at least five hairs were not documented as coming from the crime scene. Griffin's attorney, Jennifer Gowans Vandenberg, could not be immediately reached for comment Thursday. "This ruling demonstrates that the legal system works and that we will pursue criminals until justice is served." "Even after three decades, Bradley Perry and his family deserve justice and closure," Reyes said. In a written statement, Attorney General Sean Reyes said Thursday his office is pleased with the decision. The appeal sought to overturn the conviction and sentence. Prosecutors asked for the death penalty but jurors imposed the life-without-parole term instead. Griffin, now 58, was charged with capital murder in Perry's death and found guilty in 2008 by a 1st District Court jury. Griffin and thus would not have made any difference in the ultimate verdict reached by the jury," Justice Deno Himonas wrote for the court. "Therefore, any errors that might be established by the remaining claims would not have overcome the DNA evidence against Mr. ![]()
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