After more than two years of legal proceedings, a 2020 child sex abuse case that former Laramie County District Attorney Leigh Anne Grant Manlove declined to prosecute is finally closed.
Both Cumani and Shehu pleaded not guilty and requested jury trials. A jury found them not guilty following a trial that took place from September 1-4, 2020.
Under Senate File 86, the attorney general would join the governor, treasurer, secretary of state, auditor, and superintendent of public instruction as a statewide elected office.
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.