Jurors deliberated about three hours Friday before finding a youth hockey coach guilty of sexually assaulting three young boys in Butte and Flathead County.

Jami Leslie James was found guilty on all six charges of sexual intercourse without consent and faces up to 100 years in prison on each count. He sat calmly without emotion as the verdicts were read and moments later, officers cuffed him and led him back to jail.

District Judge Robert Whelan thanked jurors for their service, ordered a presentence investigation and set a tentative sentencing date of Nov. 6.

The Butte-Silver Bow County jury of six men and six women listened to closing arguments Friday afternoon, got the case around 3:30 p.m. and reached their verdicts before 7 p.m. They were read out loud in court around 7:20 p.m.

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