Trial date set for rape charges
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Bojai Dominick Grant-Schmidt, 19, entered a plea of not guilty at District Court in Polson on March 11 to sexual intercourse without consent and two counts of strangulation of a partner or family member. The charges carry a combined maximum penalty of 45 years in prison.
According to court records, on Feb. 23, the grandmother of the alleged victim reported the assault. At the scene, the victim told responding law enforcement officers that Grant-Schmidt assaulted her “over the course of four days.”
She said on or about Feb. 20, Grant-Schmidt began hitting her because he was drunk. She went on to state that Grant-Schmidt forced her to have sex despite her telling him no. She said on Feb. 21, Grant-Schmidt choked her with his hands around her neck and put a pillow over her head. Grant-Schmidt said he did use the pillow during consensual sex.
Another person at the residence told law enforcement that they went into the victim’s room and pulled Grant-Schmidt off of her. The witness later told a detective they heard the victim screaming for help and also telling Grant-Schmidt to get off of her. The witness said they saw Grant-Schmidt on the victim with “his forearm buried in her neck, choking her.”
Judge Deborah “Kim” Christopher set a trial date of Sept. 27. Grant-Schmidt remains in the Lake County jail with bail set at $100,000
