State’s Highest Court Turns Down Thibodeau’s Attempt For New Trial

by Site Administrator | June 15, 2018 6:38 am

In a 41-page document Thursday, the Court of Appeals denied Gary Thibodeau’s attempt to get a new trial.

Thibodeau is serving a 25 years to life sentence in prison after being convicted of kidnapping Heidi Allen.

Allen, then 18, disappeared from a New Haven convenience store where she was working on Easter morning in 1994.She has not been seen since.

Thibodeau was convicted the following year and has continued to maintain his innocence.

“I’m so grateful for the court’s decision. In the past four years, Chief ADA Mark Moody and I have literally spent thousands of hours on this case seeking the truth and doing all that we could to obtain justice,” saod Oswego County DA Greg Oakes. “I appreciate all of the members at the Sheriff’s Office, NY State Police, Onondaga County ME’s Office, Oswego County Search and Rescue, and other agencies who assisted on this case.”

The court’s decision, split 4 to 3, was “absolutely correct in all respects,” he said.

The DA said he prays that some day Heidi will be found and brought home so her family can have some measure of peace.

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