After representing himself during his trial, the convicted rapist is scheduled to be sentenced in Allegheny County Common Pleas Court.
Convicted rapist Arthur Lamont Henderson is scheduled to be sentenced March 26 after a jury found him guilty of raping three women in Ross and Hopewell townships. Jurors deliberated for less than four hours before returning a verdict, ending an unusual trial in which Henderson acted as his own attorney and cross-examined his victims as well as the police officers who arrested him, according to thePittsburgh Post-Gazette. During closing arguments in Allegheny County Common Pleas Court, Henderson claimed he was framed while the prosecution said it had proven its case beyond any doubt. The Ross Township rapes were reported Saturday, Jan. 7, at the Woodhawk Club Apartments complex on Johnanna Drive and on Monday, Jan. 9, at the Cascades …
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The prosecution rested its case Friday morning.
The final three witnesses for the prosecution in the rape trial of Arthur Henderson testified Friday morning that his DNA linked him to the sexual assaults of two women in Ross Township, and one in Hopewell in January of 2012, KDKA-TV reported. All three also said that the chance that the DNA was not Henderson's measured into the quintillions. “Does the DNA results tell whether the sex was consensual?” asked Henderson, who is representing himself. "No" one witnesses answered, KDKA reported. The prosecution rested its case this morning and Henderson's defense has begun. Defense witnesses are expected to include doctors who performed rape exams on the women and other investigators, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported. The charges against …
The jury also viewed a surveillance video investigators say implicates Arthur Henderson.
Final Victim The last of of three women Arthur Lamont Henderson is charged with raping in January 2012 testified Wednesday afternoon that she was assaulted in front of her 4-month-old baby, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported . The woman said she had just returned to her townhouse in the Cascades Apartment complex in Ross Township after walking her dog around 9 a.m. on Jan. 9, 2012. According to the newspaper, she entered a darkened bedroom and discovered her fiancé bound and gagged on the floor. She then noticed a dark figure in the corner of the room. "I started screaming," she said. After the attacker took her into the nursery, she testified, "I said, 'Please, don't do this.' He said, 'If you say anything, I'm going to go in that …
