GREAT FALLS – A judge has pushed back the trial of a former Great Falls mayor accused of promoting prostitution at the bar and strip club he owns west of the city.
District Judge Thomas McKittrick on Thursday changed 64-year-old Gayle Morris’ trial date from May 24 to June 14 at the request of Morris’ attorney, who says new evidence in the case has been discovered.
Prosecutors say illegal sexual activity took place on the dance stage of Really Windy’s bar, but mostly in a curtained-off lap-dance room. Officers who searched the bar in May 2009 say they discovered used condoms and condom wrappers in couch cushions of the lounge’s lap-dance room.
Morris, who was elected mayor in 1992 and served until 1995, pleaded not guilty in July to a felony charge of promoting prostitution. He remains free on $5,000 bond.