CONEJO VALLEY: BRIEFLY : MAN DENIES GUILT IN RAPE OF STUDENT.VENTURA - A Newbury Park teen facing prosecution as an adult on rape and other charges pleaded not guilty in Ventura Municipal Court on Thursday and faces a Dec. 8 preliminary hearing. Chad Schmidt, 18, is charged with 22 counts in connection with a series of crimes between Sept. 1, 1996 and Nov. 6, 1996, including the rape of a Moorpark College student at knifepoint knife·point n. The sharp end of a knife. Idiom: at knifepoint Under threat of being stabbed or cut with a knife: was mugged at knifepoint. . Of the charges, 13 are felonies including assault with the intent to commit rape, rape, false imprisonment false imprisonment, complete restraint upon a person's liberty of movement without legal justification. Actual physical contact is not necessary; a show of authority or a threat of force is sufficient. The person falsely imprisoned may sue the offender for damages. , attempted sodomy sodomy Noncoital carnal copulation. Sodomy is a crime in some jurisdictions. Some sodomy laws, particularly in Middle Eastern countries and those jurisdictions observing Shari'ah law, provide penalties as severe as life imprisonment for homosexual intercourse, even if the , attempted robbery and forced oral copulation copulation /cop·u·la·tion/ (kop?u-la´shun) sexual union; the transfer of the sperm from male to female; usually applied to the mating process in nonhuman animals. cop·u·la·tion n. 1. , said Deputy District Attorney Lisa Frawley. After a yearlong effort, prosecutors were able to get Schmidt's case moved to adult court. Schmidt, who was 17 when the alleged crimes occurred, faces more than 45 years in prison if convicted on all counts. Ventura Municipal Court Judge Steven Hintz accepted the not guilty pleas and appointed Deputy Public Defender public defender, governmental official who represents indigent persons accused of crime. U.S. Supreme Court decisions expanding the right to counsel to pretrial proceedings and holding that a person cannot be sentenced to even one day in jail unless a lawyer was Robert Willey as Schmidt's attorney. Schmidt remains in custody on $250,000 bail. ?13- Daily News Woman succumbs to crash injuries SIMI VALLEY - A 58-year-old Simi Valley woman died Saturday after a monthlong struggle to survive injuries from a traffic collision, police said Monday. Emogene Lapp had been in Simi Valley Hospital Simi Valley Hospital (SVH) is a Seventh-day Adventist hospital located located in Simi Valley, California. SVH is a member of Adventist Health. New Construction Simi Valley Hospital is in the process of building a new wing to the hospital. since Sept. 29, when her 1993 Mercury Tracer collided with a 1977 Chevy pickup truck, said Sgt. Jeff Malgren of the Simi Valley Police Department The Simi Valley Police Department (SVPD) is the police department of the city of Simi Valley, California. The department currently has over 120 sworn officers, and more than 65 support personnel[1]. The department has a patrol area that covers over 39 square miles. . The crash occurred about 6:30 p.m. at the intersection of Alamo Street and Sequoia Avenue. Malgren said the driver of the truck, an 18-year-old Simi Valley resident, proceeded prematurely with a left-hand turn and hit Lapp's car. Both drivers were injured. The 18-year-old motorist, whose name was not released by police Monday, was treated at the scene while Lapp was taken to Simi Valley Hospital. Due to Lapp's death, the case will be sent to the Ventura County District Attorney's Office for review this week, Malgren said. ``The DA will decide if it is worth pursuing a manslaughter charge,'' he said, adding that the District Attorney's Office could pursue such a charge as a misdemeanor. ?13-Daily News |
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