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Judge denies Asbury’s request for a new trial

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FILE - In this Thursday, April 8, 2021, file photo, Bradley Asbury is arraigned via video as Judge William Lyons presides, at right, at Manchester, N.H. District Court, in connection with sexual abuse allegations at the Sununu Youth Services Center, a state-run youth detention center. Documents obtained by The Associated Press show that Asbury, charged with holding down a teenage boy during a rape at the youth detention center, had been fired years earlier. Photo: Associated Press/AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File

MANCHESTER, N.H- A Hillsborough County Superior Court judge has denied a request from Bradley Asbury, the former Youth Development Center worker found guilty of being an accomplice to sexual assault.

According to court documents, Asbury made the request after he said new evidence had been discovered after he was sentenced to prison, but Judge William Delker ended up denying the request this past May after considering the record, arguments and applicable law.

Asbury is currently severing at least 20 years after being found guilty this past November on charges of aggravated felonious sexual assault, for holding down 14-year-old Michael Gilpatrick in a staircase in 1998, while councilors Stephen Murphy and Jeffrey Buskey reportedly raped the child.

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