Posted on 12/18/2020 11:55:11 PM PST by nickcarraway
Roy Waller has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole in the NorCal Rapist case.
A Sacramento judge handed down the maximum sentence that prosecutors requested on Friday.
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Waller, 60, was convicted on 46 counts exactly one month ago. He was accused of attacking and sexually assaulting nine women over 15 years in six counties across Northern California — the most recent crime happening in Natomas in 2006. The verdicts included multiple guilty counts of forcible rape, sodomy and kidnapping.
He sat motionless on Friday when the sentence was announced. Earlier, victims gave impact statements.
"Twenty-nine years of waiting and waiting. Amazing," Nicole Earnest Payte, one of the victims in the case, said last month after Waller's guilty verdict. Investigators believe Payte was Waller's first victim in 1991.
Jurors had deliberated for less than a day.
During closing arguments, Sacramento County District Attorney's Office prosecutor Chris Orr recapped for jurors the litany of disturbing crimes the different victims said they endured between 1991 and 2006.
Waller, according to the prosecution, forced his way into the women's homes, attacked, and raped them over the course of hours at a time.
Prosecutors said Waller's method of operation was similar in the each of the incidents, pointing toward the manner in which the victims were attacked, carried, bound and raped. They discussed Waller's alleged tone of voice during the crimes, phrases he used in the various incidents and the demands he made for money or ATM cards and PINs.
Prosecutors also spent closing arguments talking about the DNA evidence that linked Waller to six of the seven crime scenes. Telling the jury, DNA proves Waller was there, the similarities in his M.O. are just other pieces of the puzzle to compare, contrast and consider.
Defense attorney Joseph Farina's closing argument was spent outlining the ways the prosecution did not prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Waller was the one who committed the crimes. He acknowledged some similarities among the crimes, but pointed to numerous differences.
One of the jurors in the case, Michael, called the trial " a slam-dunk case."
"DNA don’t lie," he said. "Your DNA can’t show up at every rape case and you’re innocent."
that’s about a million years too few
Yeah, but if he serves all 897 years...
On a serious note, I can’t imagine the terror his victims went through.
Too bad he wasn’t shot dead by the first victim way back.
Yeah, but if he serves all 897 years...
On a serious note, I can’t imagine the terror his victims went through.
Too bad he wasn’t shot dead by the first victim way back.
It’s California. He should be out on appeal.
More people on death row in California than any other state.
If he had killed all of them he would still have gotten life when caught...
Agreed, he is a scumbag
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