The State - News from April 4, 1986

Sen. H. L. Richardson (R-Glendora) urged Atty. Gen. John Van de Kamp to seek reconsideration of a state Supreme Court ruling that narrowed the circumstances under which rapists may be sentenced to multiple terms. The court, in a unanimous decision, ruled that convicted rapists who sexually attack the same victim repeatedly may be sentenced to a single prison term of up to six years and not necessarily to separate terms for each rape as called for in a 1979 law. Richardson, who authored the law and currently is a candidate for lieutenant governor, called the decision “an abomination.”