An Oregon woman was held in jail for nine days this month to ensure that she would appear to testify against the man she accused of raping her over a seven-month period when she was 18 years old.
MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) A jury has found a Medford, Oregon, man guilty of multiple sex crimes following a trial in which the victim was lodged in jail for nine days to ensure she’d testify in court. A jury found Christian Alexander Sanchez, 30, guilty last week of more than a dozen felony crimes between February and September 2020, including rape, sodomy, kidnapping, coercion, assault and weapon use, the Mail Tribune reported .
A jury has found a Medford man guilty of multiple sex crimes following a four-day trial that took the unusual step of holding the victim in jail for nine days to ensure she’d testify in court.
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Stating on the record that an ankle monitor would not be effective in locating a witness if she ran away, a judge sided with a deputy district attorney in ordering that a 20-year-old woman who often l.