Convicted Rapist Declares Conviction Unjust

The teenage rapist believes conviction is unfair

An Escondido teenager convicted of raping two women had an announcement to make  after hearing his sentence, reports our media partner North County Times.

“May the Lord judge you all,” 18-year-old Daniel Entzminger said in a loud, trembling voice from within a courtroom holding cell. “People nowadays forget who the real judge is.”

Entzminger has been sentenced to 23 years in prison for separate attacks on the two women.
He has been jailed since he was 17, when he was arrested for raping a 16-year-old Escondido girl at gunpoint as she was walking to school on July 9, 2010.

After his conviction, a DNA test linked Entzminger to an unsolved rape in San Marcos reported in May 2010. In that case, he coaxed a 45-year-old homeless woman into some bushes after offering her marijuana, then punched and raped her.

He pleaded guilty to that crime in June, and was sentenced to an additional eight years on Wednesday. The “one-strike law” that toughens sentences for rapists and child molesters in some circumstances played a role in his conviction.

Entzminger started speaking moments after San Diego Superior Court Judge Kimberlee A. Lagotta approved the sentence. His attorney, Deputy Public Defender William Stone, advised him not to say anything. But Entzminger spoke anyway.

He began by saying he had been unjustly persecuted.

Judge Lagotta cut him off and asked sheriff's deputies to take him away. Entzminger kept talking.

"People are being gluttonous in the pleasures of the world," he said as deputies led him out of the courtroom. "May the Lord judge you all. You are convicted of your unrighteousness."

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