{"id":80977,"date":"2018-03-20T19:21:51","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T02:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=80977"},"modified":"2018-03-29T07:33:18","modified_gmt":"2018-03-29T14:33:18","slug":"lancaster-mans-conviction-upheld-for-series-of-sexual-assaults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2018\/03\/20\/lancaster-mans-conviction-upheld-for-series-of-sexual-assaults\/","title":{"rendered":"Lancaster man’s conviction upheld for series of sexual assaults"},"content":{"rendered":"
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James Smith in the back of a sheriff’s patrol car on June 16, 2014. Smith was taken into custody that day after he sexually assaulted a 19-year-old college student in Lancaster. (Photo by LUIS MEZA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

LOS ANGELES – A state appellate court panel Tuesday upheld a Lancaster man’s conviction for sexually assaulting three women in Los Angeles and two women in Lancaster.<\/p>\n

The three-justice panel from California’s 2nd District Court of Appeal rejected the defense’s contention that there were numerous errors in James Smith<\/strong>‘s trial.<\/p>\n

Smith, now 39, was convicted in October 2016 of three counts of forcible rape, two counts of forcible oral copulation and one count each of sexual penetration by a foreign object, sodomy by use of force, attempted sodomy by use of force and kidnapping.<\/p>\n

The charges stemmed from attacks on a 21-year-old woman in Los Angeles on Dec. 24, 2009; a 43-year-old woman in Los Angeles on Sept. 24, 2011; a 33-year-old woman in Los Angeles on March 22, 2012; a 28-year-old woman in Lancaster on Dec. 6, 2013; and a 19-year-old college student in Lancaster on June 16, 2014.<\/p>\n

Smith was arrested in Lancaster after the final attack, in which he pulled the 19-year-old woman into his car near Antelope Valley College, drove her to a vacant house nearby in Lancaster and sexually assaulted her, according to Deputy District Attorney Lowrie Mendoza.<\/p>\n

DNA evidence linked Smith to each of the attacks, the prosecutor said.<\/p>\n

He is serving a 150-year-to-life term in state prison.<\/p>\n

Previous related stories:<\/p>\n

Lancaster serial rapist gets 150 years to life<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Lancaster rapist convicted of sexually assaulting five women<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Lancaster man charged with serial rapes<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Teen sexually assaulted near AVC, suspect caught<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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LOS ANGELES – A state appellate court panel Tuesday upheld a Lancaster man’s conviction for sexually assaulting three women in Los Angeles and two women in Lancaster. The three-justice panel from California’s 2nd District Court of Appeal rejected the defense’s contention that there were numerous errors in James Smith‘s trial. Smith, now 39, was convicted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":52818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[719,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80977"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}