Judge denies motion for new trial in '84 slaying

BRIGHAM CITY — A judge has denied a motion for a new trial in the case of Glenn Howard Griffin, who was convicted of first-degree murder in a 1984 slaying.

Griffin was convicted of the murder of service-station attendant Bradley Newell Perry in November and was sentenced to life in prison without parole after a six-week trial.

Perry was bludgeoned and stabbed to death on May 26, 1984. Police say DNA testing linked Griffin to blood found on a dollar bill, which they say he gave as change to two men while pretending to be a gas-station attendant just after the killing. Griffin was arrested in 2005 — 21 years after the crime.

In court documents, attorneys for Griffin had said an Ohio man may have killed Perry.

First District Judge Ben Hadfield denied the motion for a new trial in a ruling signed last week.