PORTLAND (AP) – In a split decision, Maine’s highest court has upheld the conviction of a 46-year-old transient from Florida for raping a Portland woman nearly four years ago and then leaving her for dead.

Brandon Drewry was handed a 30-year sentence after being found guilty of charges that include kidnapping, gross sexual assault and aggravated assault.

In his appeal, Drewry raised a laundry list of issues, including a claim that the trial judge erred in not allowing the jury to hear that the victim had sex with someone other than her husband around the time of the attack.

The Supreme Judicial Court split 6-1 on that issue, with one justice siding with Drewry that the presence of semen from someone else could bolster the defense theory that another man committed the rape.