March 28, 2024
BANGOR DAILY NEWS (BANGOR, MAINE

Retrial begins in slashing death case

AUBURN — The retrial of a man accused of slashing the throat of a friend at the Auburn Mall in 1995 is under way in Androscoggin County Superior Court this week.

Thomas Tony Garrett, 27, was convicted of murder in May 1996, but the state supreme court later threw out the conviction, ruling that a trial judge improperly excluded defense evidence. A new trial was granted.

Garrett is charged with killing Robert Riley, 26, of Lewiston on Nov. 25, 1995, during an argument outside the mall.


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