State Supreme Court Reverses Strommen Conviction
Former Valley County Sheriff’s Deputy Luke Strommen had his convictions for sex crimes reversed April 30 and handed back for retrial.
A July 2020 jury trial found Strommen guilty of initiating a non-consensual sexual relationship with a victim when she was 14 and continued for years while working as a VCSO deputy. Judge John Larson sentenced Strommen to 40 years in the Montana State Prison

