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Posted: February 7, 2007

Durham Man Sentenced For Rape Attempt

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Durham, N.C. — A man will spend 10 years in prison after being convicted of climbing into bed with a couple and trying to rape the wife.

Lorenzo Mondragon entered an Alford plea Wednesday, meaning he acknowledged that the evidence in the case could result in a conviction, but does not require him to admit guilt.

Prosecutors said the maintenance man broke into a Durham couple's house on Chapel Hill Road in March 2004.

Mondragon was convicted in an earlier case for attacking a female jogger in Duke Forest. After he entered the prison system, police used hIs DNA from the state's DNA database to connect him to the case.

In that case, Mondragon was sentenced to at least eight years in prison. Now, Mondragon's sentence will be served at the same time as his current sentence.

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If you want to go to jail for a long time just sell drugs, if you do anything else you basically just get a weekend behind bars. Why is everything upside down?

Crumps Br0ther
February 8, 2007 6:16 a.m.

10 years...nope, not long enough (unless this is a milestone case of "truth in sentencing") however, could anyone explain to me how the Preacher (story from a short while back) received 7 years for killing his wife???

3potato4
February 7, 2007 9:51 p.m.

If This Man Had Weasled His Way Into My House And Had Tried Climbing Into My Bed To Rape My Wife. He Would Have NEVER EVER Have Made It To The Courthouse. The First Stop For This Guy Would Have Been The Morgue Pending Identification And Notification Of Next Of Kin.

Sherlockholmes
February 7, 2007 8:46 p.m.

I wish the article had given the name of the judge that agreed to accept this plea. He needs to explain his actions to the people that voted for him to be a judge. ONLY IN DURHAM

DOG
February 7, 2007 8:35 p.m.

2 cheers for our criminal justice system! hip hip hooray! hip hip, hooray!! Another fine example of our tax dollars and laws at work.

I'm sure these laws will change when they have a direct impact on the law makers and judges themselves.