Beach asks judge to consider new evidence

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Barry Beach, left, and attorney Peter Camiel listen to testimony Monday in Lewistown that they hope will lead to a new trial for a 1979 murder Beach says he did not commit. Beach, convicted in the 1979 beating death of a teenager on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation asked a judge Monday to consider evidence to support his claim that a group of girls was actually responsible, bringing forward witnesses and claims overwhelmingly rejected four years ago by a parole board.

LEWISTOWN — A man convicted in the 1979 beating death of a teenager on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation as...