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Barry Beach released on own recognizance

LEWISTOWN (AP) — A district judge has released convicted murderer Barry Beach on his own recognizance while he awaits a new trial in the 1979 death of Kim Nees on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation.

Beach has been in prison for 29 years.

District Judge E. Wayne Phillips made the ruling Wednesday afternoon after a hearing in Lewistown.

Phillips on Nov. 23 ordered a new trial for Beach. He said there was enough evidence to raise doubts about Beach's guilt after a court hearing last summer in which witnesses linked Nees' death to an out-of-control fight among teenage girls.

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