Lloyde Ogden, Jr., a former Cascade County detention officer, was convicted on three counts after a seven-day jury trial before Judge John Parker.
At 10:08 p.m. Oct. 6, the court clerk read the jury’s verdict, which found him guilty of three counts related to a June 2025 incident and not guilty on three other charges, including two related to an August 2025 incident.
Ogden Jr. was found guilty of felony assault with a weapon, misdemeanor partner family member assault and felony solicitation for assault.
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The jury found him not guilty of a solicitation of tampering with evidence charge, and a second misdemeanor PFMA and felony assault with a weapon charge.
The jury deliberated for about three hours, and as the clerk read the verdict, Ogden put his head on the table, then buried his face in his hands and cried.
He has remained in custody since his August 2025 arrest, primarily in other county jails since he was employed as a Cascade County Adult Detention Center officer at the time.
Ogden was held in the Cascade County jail for the duration of the trial but was moved to Lincoln County jail on Oct. 7 while he awaits sentencing.
His sentencing hasn’t yet been scheduled, but won’t be until after Nov. 19, when his pre-sentence investigation is due.
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Ogden, Jr. and his brother James Ogden were charged in August 2025.
James Ogden was sentenced in December on obstruction charges related to his brother’s August 2025 incident and his own domestic disturbance in December.
James Ogden’s charges stemmed from an early morning incident on Aug. 17, 2025 when deputies were dispatched to 1015 4th Ave. S. for a report that Lloyde Paul Ogden, Jr. was threatening suicide, on several behavioral health medications, drinking and had retrieved his handgun.
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Ogden was accused of threatening his wife with a gun and kicking her during the August 2025 incident.
After 911 was called and deputies were on scene, Ogden Jr. fled the scene with his brother to 1406 5th Ave. N., James Ogden’s residence, with the gun used in the August incident.
James Ogden testified during trial that he was concerned about his brother and took him to his house for his own safety, since Ogden Jr. had a gun, he was at risk of being shot by police.
James Ogden testified that he didn’t like law enforcement based on his own interactions.
During interviews for the August incident, Ogden’s wife, Kira, told officers details about a June incident, after he’d discovered she’d cheated on him with two of his good friends and his brother, James Ogden.
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In that incident, he was accused of slapping Kira in the face while questioning her about the affair and putting a gun in the hands of the couple’s five-year-old daughter and instructing her to point it at her mother and pull the trigger, according to court documents and testimony during the trial.
On Oct. 1, the court heard brief testimony from the now 6-year-old girl to determine whether she could testify remotely. The prosecution argued that the girl was afraid to testify in open court.
She said she was scared her dad would get out of jail, but not scared of the judge.
Continuing the discussion of whether the girl would testify remotely, the prosecution called Det. Jake Tri to the stand, who said he’d met with the girl and the prosecutors over the weekend, but she was more comfortable with only one prosecutor and Indigo Kelly from Victim Witness in the room.
Tri said the girl was open and friendly but “clammed up” when asked about the incident in which her father handed her a weapon, directing her to point it at her mother.
The prosecution asked Kelly, from Victim-Witness Assistance Services, about the girl, who is a client of the agency.
Kelly said she’d met with the girl over the weekend at the Cascade County Attorney’s Office and she was happy and playing, but her demeanor “completely changed” when asked to talk about the gun incident.
Kelly said the girl buried her face in her dog stuffed animal, as if trying to hide herself.
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The defense asked if Kelly had any licenses or professional credentials in child development, forensic interviewing, or trauma assessment, which she did not.
The attorneys debated whether expert testimony was required to determine if the child had experienced trauma.
Judge John Parker said that the court may, up to a point, determine whether there has been trauma by reference to common experience.
He said the court can’t diagnose post-traumatic stress or trauma, but can ascertain whether something has been traumatic.
Parker said he could assume that if a child were asked to point a gun at a person, it would be traumatic.
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Jayde James, for the defense, argued that the girl was afraid to testify because of all the people in the courtroom and not specifically to see her father.
James argued that having the child testify remotely might prejudice the jury against her client, who would also lose his right to confront a witness.
Ashlee Kummer for the prosecution said that the girl told the court she was afraid to testify because she’s afraid her father will be released from jail and that she can be seen screaming in the security videos presented during the trial.
The video was played again, and Parker said, “that was manifestly clear to me” that the child was in a “panic state.”
Kummer said that the girl testified she had nightmares and was scared her father would come and take her and her sister away.
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She said the girl hadn’t seen her father in more than a year and her last memories of him were the incidents in question during the trial that involved a gun.
Parker said it was clear that the girl had already suffered trauma based on the video, which was “jarring to watch for those of us in the room” and ruled that the girl would be allowed to testify remotely.
She testified on Oct. 2 from another room in the courthouse over Zoom.
The first-grader said her favorite thing about school is recess and that she used to live in Great Falls with her family.
Kummer asked her to explain what had happened here.
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The girl said she “woke up at bedtime and mommy was getting chased by daddy.”
Asked what she saw her mom doing, the girl said running and “she said go back to sleep.”
The girl said that in the bathroom, Ogden Jr. gave her a gun and ‘he told me to shoot at both of them.”
She said she knew how to shoot a gun and that she had pulled the trigger, but “nothing shot.”
The girl said she was “scared” and “didn’t want to shoot, but I had to…because I don’t want to get in trouble by daddy.”
On cross-examination, James asked the girl if the incident happened during the day or at night, to which she said nighttime.
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She said she knew the gun incident happened in the bathroom, but she didn’t know when.
Throughout the trial, the defense questioned Kira Ogden’s credibility, saying she’d had affairs and lied to investigators at various points during the investigation.
On Oct. 1, Kira was on the stand for the third day.
Dean Koffler, for the defense, said that she had testified she and Ogden Jr. were separated and getting divorced, but later texted him that she loved him and missed him.
Koffler said he was attempting to use the text messages to impeach her reliability since she’d testified they were getting separated, then texting I love you, miss you so much, “directly contradicts her testimony. Those things don’t mesh.”
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Amanda Lofink, for the prosecution, asked Kira Ogden why she’d lied to officers in telling them she’d been sexually assaulted by those she was having an affair with, at Ogden Jr.’s direction.
She said she made false statements to law enforcement because that was what Ogden Jr. had wanted her to say and she wanted to keep him out of trouble.
One of the prosecution’s witnesses was a man Kira Ogden had an affair with, a friend of Ogden Jr.’s, who lived with another man she’d had an affair with.
He testified that Ogden, Jr. had come to his house with a gun and they’d fought.
Two of Ogden Jr.’s other friends testified that they’d spoken with him by phone in June, during which he’d made comments about being suicidal.
On Oct. 5, the defense called Lloyde Ogden Jr. to the stand.
Koffler opened with “did you threaten to kill your wife with a handgun?” to which Ogden Jr. answered no.
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Koffler asked, “did you tell your child to point a gun at your wife and pull the trigger?”
“I did not,” Ogden Jr. said.
Ogden said things had been going pretty well before the summer of 2025, when he fell into a “depressive state” and was losing weight, which people were commenting on.
He said he had a close friend group and they usually had Friday game nights, playing Magic: The Gathering, a card game.
That friend group included his brother and the two other men his wife had affairs with, according to testimony during trial.
During his testimony, on Oct. 6, the seventh day of the trial, Ogden, Jr. brought up an element of his wife’s sexual activities that the judge had previously ruled out for trial.
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Parker, the judge, immediately asked the jury to leave the room and, once they had, said “this is a direct violation of my order.”
The prosecution moved for a mistrial and Lofink said it followed the defense’s disregard for the judge’s orders throughout the case.
It’s common practice for attorneys to discuss with the judge before trial any topics or materials that will not be allowed to be presented to a jury so as not to prejudice a jury on the specific charges they’re being asked to evaluate based on the facts of the case.
In the Ogden case, the attorneys and the judge discussed those matters for several hours the week before the trial.
Koffler said the defense had been doing mental gymnastics to figure out how to work around this particular aspect of the case, to which Parker said to take his gymnastics elsewhere.
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“I prohibited this as a trial topic. What are you doing counsel,” Parker said. “I’m really very troubled by the defense team’s posture on this point.”
At that point, Parker said he was considering barring Ogden, Jr. from testifying further, to which Koffler said if that was the case, the defense would request a mistrial.
Early in the trial, the defense had moved for a mistrial since the prosecution team had met with Kira Ogden and the six-year-old the weekend before trial and provided the defense with a report of that discussion.
Parker did not call a mistrial nor prohibit Ogden, Jr. from continuing to testify, but told the defense to move on from its line of questioning.
On the final day of trial, Ogden, Jr. said that he had been rude to Kira that day in June, calling her a whore, but hadn’t done some of the things she claimed, such as dragging her to the trashcan.
“I could have handled that much better than I did,” he said.
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Ogden, Jr. said that during the June incident, after he’d discovered the affairs, he started drinking and they discussed what had happened and why, which he said led to makeup sex, during which there was some light slapping, which increased in intensity beyond their previously agreed-upon limits.
Bruises to Kira’s face were a consideration in the assault charge during the June incident.
Ogden, Jr. testified that he had learned gun safety during his military service and during subsequent security-related jobs. He said their children had been exposed to weapons and he called them “blasters” to the daughter who was five at the time because he thought it was “whimsical.”
The defense argued that the incident in the bathroom when he handed a gun, that wasn’t loaded, to his 5-year-old daughter, was a gun safety lesson.
During closing arguments on Oct. 6, Lofink, one of the county prosecutors, said, “you don’t have to like Kira Ogden” or agree with her actions.
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“This case…is not about who you like or who you don’t like,” Lofink said.
Koffler said during his closing argument that Ogden Jr. had not threatened to kill his wife and the entire situation started when his client discovered his wife had been cheating.
Koffler said that Kira Ogden had told her husband that she’d been sexually assaulted by his friends, so he’d gone to their house believing she’d been raped and was ready to fight.
“Lloyde reacted poorly,” and admitted he could have handled it better, Koffler said.
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Kira Ogden texted her husband less than 24 hours after she said he threatened to shoot her, “you are my everything, and Koffler asked the jury if that sounded like a woman who’d been threatened.
Koffler said that the bathroom gun safety lesson was odd to others, but Kira Ogden didn’t tell anyone about the incident in which she said her husband had handed the girl a gun and directed her to shoot her mother, insinuating that Kira had made up the story.
Koffer said “he regrets what he did,” but Ogden, Jr. didn’t do what his wife said he did.
