MONCTON, NB -The man at the center of a high profile kidnapping and sexual assault case in Moncton has been denied leave to appeal his conviction and sentence.
Romeo Jacques Cormier went before the New Brunswick Court of Appeal in April arguing for a new trial.
He argued that his lawyers didn’t represent him properly, the judge was biased and that his sentence was too long.
Cormier is serving 18 years for kidnapping, sexual assault and unlawful confinement of a Moncton woman.
The victim, whose identity is protected by a publication ban, was grabbed outside of the Highfield Square Mall in February of 2010.
She was held captive in a rooming house basement on Sixth Street for about a month before she escaped.
An RCMP officer escorts 62-year-old Romeo Jacques Cormier from court in Moncton, N.B., on March 25, 2010. A New Brunswick man who was found guilty of abducting a woman and sexually assaulting her for almost a month is in court today in an effort to appeal his conviction and sentence. Romeo Cormier is representing himself today before the provincial Court of Appeal in Fredericton. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan
No appeal for Cormier
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