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A friend has sent you a link to an article found on FlatheadBeacon.com. To read the full text of this article online, click here: http://www.flatheadbeacon.com/articles/article/yellowstone_county_wins_legal_defense_case_against_bromgard/14281/ ARTICLE EXCERPT: BILLINGS – A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that Yellowstone County should not be held responsible for the legal defense provided to a former Billings man who spent 15 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. A three-judge panel with the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued the decision in the appeal by Jimmy Ray Bromgard, who says he was wrongly convicted in 1987 of raping an 8-year-old girl because of poor representation from his court-appointed attorney. He was exonerated in 2002 by DNA testing.