ROANOKE TIMES  
                      Copyright (c) 1997, Roanoke Times

DATE: Wednesday, April 9, 1997               TAG: 9704090053
SECTION: VIRGINIA                 PAGE: C-4  EDITION: METRO  
SOURCE: MATT CHITTUM
MEMO: ***CORRECTION***
      Published correction ran on April 10, 1997.
         Clarification
         A Botetourt Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court judge dismissed 
      charges of abduction and penetration with an inanimate object against 
      Liniel G. "Trey" Gregory on Tuesday.

RAPE CASE FORWARDED

A Botetourt County Juvenile and Domestic Relations judge certified to the grand jury charges of rape and sodomy against a Fincastle man Tuesday.

The charges against Liniel G. "Trey" Gregory, 31, will be heard by a Botetourt grand jury June2.

Gregory's 20-year-old former girlfriend, a Roanoke woman, told Botetourt Sheriff's Investigator Beth Musselwhite that she had gone to Gregory's cabin Feb.19 at his invitation, according to a search warrant filed in Botetourt Circuit Court. He initiated sex, she said, and when she refused, he forced it on her.

Gregory, a former Roanoke police officer, said in a statement Tuesday that he maintains his innocence and expects to be found not guilty.

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