Tony Cercy

Tony Cercy's family moved to Texas and he is free on bond.

The Wyoming Supreme Court reversed the state district court's verdict and ordered the case be reconsidered.

Tony Cercy's attorney wrote he has been punished enough and should not have to endure the grief of a third trial.

Tony Cercy was released from prison on Tuesday.

CHEYENNE -- The second trial of former Casper businessman Tony Cercy in November, in which he was convicted of third-degree sexual assault and sentenced to a six- to eight-year prison term, violated his Fifth Amendment right to not be tried twice for the same crime, his attorney told the Wyoming Sup…

Casper man Tony Cercy was convicted of third-degree sexual assault of a 20-year-old woman and sentenced to a six- to eight year prison term.

The Wyoming Attorney General's Office has 45 days to respond to Cercy's appeal.

Tony Cercy's attorneys have argued in the past that the retrial on the third-degree count violated his Fifth Amendment right to not be tried twice for the same crime.

In February 2018, a jury in Natrona County District Court acquitted Cercy on the first- and second-degree counts, but deadlocked on the third-degree count.

Wyoming law since the mid-1980s no longer guarantees the right to be released on bond.