CONVICTED RAPIST MUST STAND TRIAL MAN CHARGED WITH TRYING TO ABDUCT TWO LOCAL WOMEN.Byline: Karen Maeshiro Staff Writer LANCASTER - A freed Georgia rapist rap·ist n. One who commits rape. Noun 1. rapist - someone who forces another to have sexual intercourse raper aggressor, assailant, assaulter, attacker - someone who attacks has been ordered to stand trial on charges he tried to abduct abduct /ab·duct/ (ab-dukt´) to draw away from the median plane, or (the digits) from the axial line of a limb.abdu´cent ab·duct v. two women, one at knife-point, within a span of a half hour in Palmdale. Russell Burton, 36, spent 14 years in Georgia prisons for the kidnapping kidnapping, in law, the taking away of a person by force, threat, or deceit, with intent to cause him to be detained against his will. Kidnapping may be done for ransom or for political or other purposes. and sexual assault of three teenage girls until his original conviction was overturned. Burton was bound over Friday for trial following a preliminary hearing at which the two victims testified about the Feb. 26 incidents. Burton followed the first victim's car in his sport utility vehicle, prosecutors said. ``He was basically following (the first victim) around through three different shopping centers shopping center, a concentration of retail, service, and entertainment enterprises designed to serve the surrounding region. The modern shopping center differs from its antecedents—bazaars and marketplaces—in that the shops are usually amalgamated into in Palmdale. He really didn't make contact with her but followed her around closely across three intersec District Attorney Tannaz Mokayef said. Mokayef said Burton would wait for long periods of time as the woman went in and out of stores. About a half-hour later, Burton approached the second victim, who is 18, on Rancho Vista Boulevard near the Antelope Valley Freeway The Antelope Valley Freeway is a freeway in Los Angeles and Kern counties in southern California. It is signed as California State Highway 14 along its length. It connects Greater Los Angeles to the rapidly developing Antelope Valley. and told her to get into his SUV at knife-point, Mokayef said. ``The victim testified he said something like, 'Get in the Suburban, or I will kill you,''' Mokayef said. The woman refused and r said. Burton has pleaded not guilty to attempted kidnapping to commit another crime, attempted kidnapping, making criminal threats, sta taking or driving of a vehicle, and possession of cocaine. Burton also is facing Kern County charges alleging he kidnapped Kidnapped caught in the intrigues of Scottish factions, David Balfour and Alan Breck are shipwrecked, escape from the king’s soldiers, and undergo great dangers. [Br. Lit.: R. L. Stevenson Kidnapped] See : Adventurousness three other young women in Rosamond two hours after the incidents in Palmdale. In the Rosamond incident, Burton is accused of approaching three sisters ages 15, 18 and 20 in the Rosamond Boulevard Rite Aid Rite Aid (NYSE: RAD) is a United States retailer and pharmacy chain, operating over 5,000 stores in 31 states and the District of Columbia. Rite Aid Corporation is one of the nation's leading drugstore chains. parking lot the afternoon of Feb. 26 and asking for a ride, Kern County officials. When the girls let him get into their vehicle, he held a screwdriver screwdriver, n See instrument, screwdriver. to the throat of the 15-year-old and ordered the driver to d desert, officials said. At one point, Burton ordered one of his victims to get into his SUV and follow him as he drove the other two in their car, but af s go in their car, and drove off, Kern County prosecutors said. Burton had been sentenced to life in prison in Georgia in 1988 after his conviction for abducting ab·duct tr.v. ab·duct·ed, ab·duct·ing, ab·ducts 1. To carry off by force; kidnap. 2. Physiology To draw away from the midline of the body or from an adjacent part or limb. and sexually assaulting three teenage girls whom he tricked into stopping their car beside a road, records show. But a federal judge and an appeals court later overturned his conviction, saying he had not received a fair trial because his attorney had been ineffective, and Burton was released from a Georgia prison in May 2002. In December, while out of prison but facing a new trial for the same crime, Burton pleaded guilty to one count of rape and three counts of kidnapping and was set free in exchange for the 14 years he had already served in prison. Karen Maeshiro, (661) 267-5744 karen.maeshiro(at)dailynews.com |
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