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Michael Keith Spell sits April 17, 2015, in state District Court in Sidney. A defense attorney says Spell, a mentally-disabled Colorado man serving a 100-year prison term for a Montana teacher's murder, should be transferred to the custody of state mental health officials. Attorney Wendy Holton said in an appeal brief filed Tuesday that Spell needs treatment that he won't receive in prison. Spell's 2012 killing of Sherry Arnold in the once-quiet town of Sidney highlighted a significant spike in crime following an oil boom that's swept the Northern Plains.
MATTHEW BROWN
Associated Press
BILLINGS - An attorney for a mentally disabled man serving a 100-year prison term for killing a high school teacher in the Northern Plains' oil patch asked the Montana Supreme Court on Tuesday to vacate his sentence and place him under the custody of state health officials.
The killing of Sherry Arnold in the once-quiet town of Sidney called attention to a major spike in crime following an oil boom that swept eastern Montana and western North Dakota.
Arnold, 43, was killed when Michael Keith Spell of Parachute, Colorado, and an accomplice attempted to abduc...
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