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ATTORNEYS FOR CASPER BUSINESSMAN TONY CERCY, WHO IS CHARGED WITH THREE COUNTS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT, HAVE ASSERTED THE INCIDENT IN JUNE COULD NOT HAVE HAPPENED BECAUSE FOUR DOGS IN HIS ALCOVA LAKE HOUSE WOULD HAVE BARKED.

ON FRIDAY, THE FIFTH DAY OF THE TRIAL, CERCY'S LEAD DEFENSE ATTORNEY PAMELA MACKEY CALLED MARY CABLK, A SCIENTIFIC CONSULTANT, TO TESTIFY ABOUT AN EXPERIMENT SHE SET UP.

CABLK SAID SHE CRAFTED A HYPOTHESIS STATING THE DOGS WOULD HAVE BARKED LOUDLY IN THE ROOM WHERE THEY AND CERCY'S WIFE AND ANOTHER WOMAN WERE SLEEPING NEXT TO THE ROOM WHERE THE ALLEGED VICTIM WOKE UP, SHOUTED AND PUSHED CERCY AWAY.
CABLK CONDUCTED THE EXPERIMENT IN THE CERCY HOME AT ALCOVA LAKE BY PLACING A SOUND MONITOR ON A TABLE IN THE LIVING ROOM NEXT TO THE COUCH WHERE THE ASSAULT IS ALLEGED TO HAVE HAPPENED.

SHE PLACED TWO MORE MONITORS IN THE BEDROOM.

TWO ACTORS, PARTIALLY CLOTHED, SIMULATED THE ALLEGED EVENT.

THE WOMAN WAKES UP AND YELLS AT CERCY, AND IN CABLK'S WORDS, “THESE DOGS WERE GOING NUTS.”

THE JURY HEARD ONLY THE AUDIO, BUT DID NOT SEE THE VISUAL, PART OF THE VIDEO BECAUSE IN JANUARY NATRONA COUNTY DISTRICT COURT JUDGE DANIEL FORGEY REJECTED THE DEFENSE REQUEST TO ALLOW THE VIDEO INTO EVIDENCE DURING THE TRIAL.

NATRONA COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY MIKE BLONIGEN ATTACKED CABLK'S TESTIMONY, REMINDING HER THAT BOTH CARYL CERCY AND HER FRIEND WERE INTOXICATED.

HE ASKED IF THE DOGS WOULD REACT DIFFERENTLY TO A STRANGER THAN TO CERCY, WHOSE VOICE THEY KNEW; WHY THE THE ACTORS WERE CLOTHED AND NOT NEARLY NAKED AS DESCRIBED BY THE ALLEGED VICTIM; AND WHY THERE WAS NOTHING ABOUT HER MAKING PHONE CALLS LIKE THE ALLEGED VICTIM SAID SHE MADE.

CABLK SAID THOSE MATTERS WERE IRRELEVANT TO WHETHER THE DOGS BARKED.

THE TRIAL RESUMES AT 9:30 A.M. TUESDAY.
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LAWMAKERS IN THE WYOMING HOUSE HAVE VOTED DOWN A BILL THAT WOULD HAVE MEANT PRISON TIME FOR DRIVERS WHO CAUSE A DEADLY WRECK WHILE TEXTING ON THEIR PHONES.

TEXTING WHILE DRIVING IN WYOMING CURRENTLY IS A MISDEMEANOR PUNISHABLE BY A FINE UP TO $75.

A BILL SPONSORED BY REPRESENTATIVES INCLUDING HANS HUNT, OF NEWCASTLE, WOULD HAVE ALLOWED UP TO 20 YEARS IN PRISON FOR DRIVERS WHO CAUSE A DEADLY TEXTING CRASH. HUNT SAID FRIDAY A TEXTING DRIVER WHO CRASHED IN NORTHEAST WYOMING RECENTLY BADLY HURT TWO MEN WHO WERE HELPING ANOTHER MOTORIST.

OTHER LAWMAKERS QUESTIONED WHETHER THE BILL WAS NECESSARY.

THE BILL FAILED WITH TWO-THIRDS OF THE HOUSE VOTING NO. THE BILL NEEDED A TWO-THIRDS MAJORITY TO BE INTRODUCED FOR FURTHER DISCUSSION.
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JACKSON, WYO. (AP) - A UTAH SKIER HAS BEEN KILLED AFTER TRIGGERING AN AVALANCHE JUST OUTSIDE THE BOUNDARY OF WYOMING'S JACKSON HOLE SKI RESORT. THIRTY-YEAR-OLD ALEXANDER MARRA OF OREM, UTAH WAS KILLED SATURDAY MORNING SOUTH OF THE SKI AREA. THE BRIDGER-TETON AVALANCHE CENTER ISSUED AN ADVISORY SATURDAY MORNING WARNING OF A CONSIDERABLE AVALANCHE HAZARD AT UPPER ELEVATIONS.

SHERIDAN, WYO. (AP) - A REPORT FROM A NONPROFIT GROUP SAYS MINORITY POPULATIONS IN WYOMING HAVE BEEN GROWING FASTER THAN THE WHITE POPULATION AS THE COWBOY STATE'S DEMOGRAPHICS SLOWLY SHIFT TOWARD GREATER DIVERSITY. AN ANALYSIS BY THE WYOMING COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOUND THAT THE STATE'S MINORITY POPULATIONS INCREASED 57 PERCENT BETWEEN 2000 AND 2016. THE NUMBER OF WHITES GREW JUST 20 PERCENT, ALTHOUGH THEY STILL COMPRISE THE MAJORITY OF THE STATE'S POPULATION.

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A CHEYENNE MOTHER AND FATHER ARE FACING CHILD ENDANGERING CHARGES AFTER ALLEGEDLY EXPOSING THEIR 9-MONTH-OLD BABY TO METHAMPHETAMINE.

20-YEAR-OLD LISA BELL AND 19-YEAR-OLD TYREESE REED WERE ARRESTED ON FEB. 9, AFTER AGENTS CONDUCTING A SEARCH WARRANT ON A MOBILE HOME WHERE ONE OR MORE OF THE TENANTS WERE BELIEVED TO BE USING AND/OR SELLING METH, FOUND THE TWO AND THEIR BABY IN A BEDROOM.

ACCORDING TO AN AFFIDAVIT, AGENTS FOUND .5 GRAMS OF METH IN REED'S DRESSER AND 13.6 GRAMS OF METH IN THE KITCHEN.

REED REPORTEDLY TOLD AGENTS THAT HE "USED METH SEVERAL TIMES A WEEK" AND THAT THE METH "BELONGED TO HIM."

BELL, WHO ALSO REPORTEDLY ADMITTED TO USING METH, SAID "ANOTHER INDIVIDUAL DISTRIBUTED METH IN THE RESIDENCE ON AT LEAST ONE OCCASION, AND THAT THE SAME INDIVIDUAL POSSESSED A PIPE USED TO INGEST METH THE NIGHT PRIOR TO THE WARRANT SERVICE."

THE BABY WAS SUBSEQUENTLY PLACED IN THE CUSTODY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF FAMILY SERVICES.

IF CONVICTED OF CHILD ENDANGERING, BELL AND REED COULD FACE UP TO FIVE YEARS IN PRISON. REED IS ALSO FACING A MISDEMEANOR POSSESSION OF METHAMPHETAMINE CHARGE.

BOTH ARE BEING HELD IN THE LARAMIE COUNTY JAIL ON $3,000 CASH BONDS. THEIR PRELIMINARY HEARINGS ARE SCHEDULED FOR FEB. 22.

 

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