Bail stays at $250K for hockey coach accused of rape in Butte, Flathead County
Jami James is shown before his arraignment in Flathead County District Court on Thursday, March 30. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
BUTTE -- A former youth hockey coach accused of sexually assaulting young boys in Butte and Flathead County said he couldn’t afford to post $250,000 bail and his lawyer asked a judge to reduce it to $100,000.
The attorney for 49-year-old Jami Leslie James also said his client is willing to live alone in another person’s house in Lake County while awaiting trial, wear a GPS monitoring device and agree to other release conditions.
The $100,000 would come from James’ mother’s retirement fund, defense attorney Scott Hilderman told District Judge Robert Whelan during a Tuesday court hearing in Butte.
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