MAN ORDERED TO TRIAL IN ATTACKS ON WOMEN.Byline: Karen Maeshiro Daily News Staff Writer A Lancaster ex-convict facing his ``third strike'' has been ordered to stand trial on charges he sexually assaulted one woman and tried to attack another. Glenn Bernard Hilke, 36, is facing 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 charges, and prosecutors said they plan to file additional charges of assault and robbery. ``I felt that the evidence presented at the preliminary hearing also showed the additional charges,'' Deputy District Attorney Myron Jenkins said. The defendant is alleged to have taken two women on two separate occasions in October into the desert and attacked them, officials said. Hilke was bound over for trial Wednesday following a two-day preliminary hearing in Antelope Municipal Court. Hilke remained in custody in lieu of Instead of; in place of; in substitution of. It does not mean in addition to. $1 million bail. Hilke is charged with kidnapping for purposes of committing a felony felony (fĕl`ənē), any grave crime, in contrast to a misdemeanor, that is so declared in statute or was so considered in common law. , forcible forc·i·ble adj. 1. Effected against resistance through the use of force: The police used forcible restraint in order to subdue the assailant. 2. Characterized by force; powerful. 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 and attempted sodomy, Jenkins said. Jenkins said he plans to file a count of assault with intent to commit sodomy and two counts of robbery. If convicted of a third offense under the state's ``three strikes, you're out'' law, Hilke faces 25 years to life in prison. Hilke's attorney, Deputy Alternate 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 Avrum S. Harris, said Hilke has three convictions stemming from a prior sex case. Harris said there are ``major questions of fact'' in the case, including the description given by one of the victims of her assailant's pickup truck. She said the pickup had an automatic transmission and silver-gray tool boxes that opened toward the inside of the bed, Harris said. Hilke's truck has a standard transmission with white tool boxes that open to the outside, Harris said. Hilke said the other victim consented to sex with him, and he paid her for it, Harris said. |
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