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ALPENA An Alpena man wants to take back his guilty plea in an assault case after his victim claimed the assault never happened.
Damien Michael Smith, now 26, was sentenced in 2015 to two years in prison after he admitted to threatening a man with a gun in an Alpena apartment building.
The man Smith said he accosted, Christopher Medlin, told Judge Benjamin Bolser in Alpena’s 26th Circuit Court Court on Monday that he lied when he told police about the incident.
Medlin, now 24, was arrested on drug charges in 2014. During interrogation after his arrest, police promised to go easy on Medlin if he gave them information about Smith, Medlin told the court.