Ex-Spokane police officer convicted of rape claims another officer had sex with victim
As part of his request for a new trial, former police Sgt. Gordon Ennis alleges another officer had sexual contact with the victim the same night he was convicted of sexually assaulting her.
Led into Spokane County Superior Court Monday morning, his goatee now a graying beard, Ennis, through his new attorney Mark Vovos, argued that the public should be aware of information that his former trial attorney apparently ignored. Information, he alleges, that could have resulted in a different verdict.
“My wife and I were both told we were not supposed to tell anyone this, and we believed it would be used in my defense,” Ennis wrote in newly released court documents. “We were told that this was important.”
Ennis was convicted on March 7 of second-degree rape. He was accused of sexually assaulting a fellow officer while she was sleeping at a house party organized by another officer in 2015...
Read more: http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2018/jun/04/ex-spokane-police-officer-convicted-of-rape-claims/
