New sentence ordered in horrific incest case
Douglas Guill
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HELENA – State prosecutors, public defenders and the Montana Supreme Court agree: a man convicted in 2008 of incest will need to be resentenced.
The high court ruled April 14 that Douglas Guill, 63, needs to be awarded credit for time served in the case where he was sentenced to five concurrent 50-year terms for two counts of sexual intercourse without consent, one count of sexual assault and two counts of incest.
“Guill’s current sentence does not fall within statutory parameters … and he has demonstrated an illegal sentence,” the court wrote in a unanimous decision.
Guill’s attorneys asked that the court credit the 650 days he served in Sanders County jail while awaiting trial.
State prosecutors agreed.
“The matter should be remanded to the district court for a determination of the number of days of presentence incarceration Guill served related to his current conviction and the credit to be given,” Assistant Attorney General Brenda K. Ellis wrote in an April 1 response to the appeal.
Guill is ineligible for parole. He is designated as the most dangerous type of sex offender that is likely to reoffend.
In a two-week trial in Polson, prosecutors laid out a case where the 22-year old victim was able to escape her family after very seldom being allowed to leave the property where she lived with her mother, her brother, Guill and Guill’s girlfriend. The victim told authorities she had never been educated, had little home-schooling, and weren’t allowed to have friends.
The victim told authorities her father had started sexually abusing her at age 6 and that Guill’s girlfriend Nicole Christensen also participated. Christensen eventually married Guill in 2006, after the victim’s mother divorced Guill. Christensen was sentenced to two concurrent sentences of 25 years in prison, with 10 suspended for sexual intercourse without consent and incest by accountability.
Guill’s resentencing will be done by Judge Deborah Kim Christopher.
