Posted on 03/16/2016 5:39:47 PM PDT by rey
Jurors returned a guilty verdict Wednesday against a Santa Rosa man who claimed he could not be held responsible for molesting a 13-year-old girl because he was sleepwalking.
Loren Rodriguez-Martinez, 60, now faces up to eight years in prison and lifetime sex-offender registration for the Aug. 4, 2014, assault at a Santa Rosa motel.
Prosecutors said the man was alone in a room with the girl when she awoke from a nap to find him molesting her.
He claimed he also had been napping in a separate bed and had no memory of the attack. The man presented testimony during a weeklong trial from an expert witness who concluded he was sleepwalking.
His lawyer argued he was not conscious and could not be liable for the offense.
Jurors returned the guilty verdict after about six hours of deliberation.
Rodriguez-Martinez will be sentenced April 21 by Judge Gary Medvigy.
Because of a jury finding that he had substantial sexual contact with the minor, he is not eligible for probation.
Or is he a natural born citizen?
South-of-the-border Amish.
s/ ole!
And it took the jury 6 hours to see through this crap?
Those things are never discussed in articles from this paper.
There was a case where someone was stabbed by the downtown library. Nearly all murder trials show a picture of the defendant. This one did not. same for this story. No pic of the defendant.
Yet another crazy defense.
Send him to the same prison where Jared got whupped.
Always a couple holdouts.
Doubt they had to be unanimous though, its not a murder trial.
There are too many lawyers.
What are you talking about. The verdict was unanimous, as it has to be in all criminal trials.
He should have used the same defense as the Saudi Prince!
Why was this perv allowed to nap in the same room as an 11-year-old girl?
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