A seven woman, five man jury early Friday September 13th before The Honorable Cynthia Muñiz' 293rd District Court found Bryan Phipps 'Not guilty' of sexual assault against a child after, according to Judge Muñiz, what was an exceptional trial between legal counsel Gregory Torres and Assistant DA Albert Rodriguez.

In what has to be a statement that had to have impacted the jury, Torres questioned the fact that one of the State's witnesses may have not been telling the truth, "The truth doesn't have to be remembered... you NEVER forget it."

  "Several BP officers testified.  When someone is accused of something like this, they avoid you, they don't come up and testify.  My job is to try to SHOW you the truth.  My goal is not to abuse her (Mr. Phipp's Ex- wife), but to make her tell the truth and she was not able to do that.  How many times do you have to tell a lie until it becomes the truth?"

Judge Muñiz commended both attorneys in this case and stated that they both handled themselves with the utmost professionalism before allowing the jury back into the courtroom.

At 2:43 P.M. after two hours of deliberation the verdict was read by Judge Muñiz who found the defendant, Bryan Edward Phipps 'Not Guilty' as family members of the victim, many of whom came all the way from Utah, directed verbal remarks at the defendant on the way out of the courtroom. 

Unfortunately for Phipps, the news of his passing arrived early Monday morning.  The News Gram will keep you informed as to the details of this horrific discovery in our sister county of Dimmit.