PORTLAND (AP) — A New Hampshire man convicted of strangling his fiancee in her Maine home has asked a judge to grant him a new trial based on “newly discovered evidence.”
An attorney for Jason Twardus filed a motion Tuesday in York County Superior Court saying the state failed to provide his client with evidence in a timely fashion that another man may have killed Kelly Gorham in 2007.
Twardus, of Rochester, N. H., was sentenced to 38 years in prison in August for killing the 30-year-old nursing student in her Alfred home. Her body was found a month later.
The Portland Press Herald reports that Twardus’ lawyer says the new evidence is based on a jailhouse statement by another man.
Prosecutors say there was no effort to withhold any evidence.
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