TACOMA -- A federal judge denied a convicted rapist's request for a new trial.
According to the Washington State Office of Attorney General, Coe will remain at the state's Special Commitment Center of McNeil Island.
Coe was convicted of rape in the Spokane area in 1985.
Coe was going to be released in 2006 until the Attorney General's office obtained a jury verdict labeling him as a sexually violent predator. At that point, the state confined Coe in the Special Commitment Center.
Officials said Coe has been linked to 36 sex offenses including 18 rapes which had never gone to trial.
Here's a statement from the Attorney General's office: