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Defendant Mazen Alotaibi listens to comments by Judge Stefany Miley during the jury selection process for his trial at the Clark County District Court in Las Vegas, Oct. 11, 2013
Thursday, Nov. 20, 2014 | 9:42 a.m.
A Nevada judge rejected a call for a new trial for a Saudi Arabian air force sergeant found guilty of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a 13-year-old boy at a Las Vegas Strip hotel.
Clark County District Judge Stefany Miley issued her ruling Wednesday in the case of 25-year-old Mazen Alotaibi, and set sentencing Jan. 28.
Alotaibi faces a mandatory minimum of 35 years in state prison.
Defense attorney Dominic Gentile had argued Alotaibi deserved a new trial because a witness said he lied during testimony about how intoxicated Alotaibi was before encountering the boy at the Circus Circus hotel on New Year's Eve 2012.
Prosecutor Jacqueline Bluth called intoxication a small detail amid overwhelming DNA and medical evidence and witness testimony that Alotaibi forced sex on the boy.
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