Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, October 18, 1995 TAG: 9510180042
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-4 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: LAURENCE HAMMACK
DATELINE: LENGTH: Short
A Roanoke man was sentenced to 90 days in jail Tuesday for sexually abusing a woman who accepted a ride from him as she walked on Shenandoah Avenue.
Jackie L. Robinson, 41, had been charged with rape, abduction and assault and battery, but those charges were dropped or reduced as a part of a plea agreement reached in Roanoke Circuit Court. Robinson pleaded no contest to a reduced charge of sexual battery, a misdemeanor.
A 24-year-old woman told police she accepted a ride from Robinson about 8:45 p.m. April 13, when she was walking home from visiting a friend at the Roanoke City Jail.
Robinson took the woman to his home in Northwest Roanoke and eventually put an electrical cord around her neck before forcing her to have sex with him, according to a summary of the evidence by Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney Wanda DeWease.
Defense attorney Peter Katt said that, had the case gone to trial, Robinson would have contended the victim was a prostitute and that she had agreed to have sex with him for $25.
While DeWease disputed that account, she said the case became ``problematic'' when scientific evidence showed that at the time of the attack, the woman had had sex with two other men within 10 days of the attack.
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