A DC Superior Court judge vacated a March 16 trial readiness hearing for a defendant charged with sex abuse among several other felony offenses.
The defendant, 45, is charged with first-degree sex abuse, assault with intent to commit first-degree sex abuse, robbery, kidnapping, and first-degree burglary.
Although he was arrested in 2019, the alleged offense stems back to 2010. On June 12 of that year at around midnight, the defendant allegedly entered an occupied residence on the 1700 block of Lanier Place, NW, sexually assaulted the victim, and then fled the scene, according to a press release issued shortly after his arrest.
Parties were not in a rush to set a trial date due to the defendant’s pending sentencing in another sex abuse case. In that case, a jury convicted him in March 2020 of kidnapping and first-degree sexual abuse.
Judge Juliet McKenna scheduled another trial readiness hearing for July 8.
