Crime & Safety
Trial Delayed for RUHS Sex Assault Suspect
Sylvester Gene Rawls, who is accused of sexually assaulting a Redondo Union High School student in 2003, will stand trial in February.
The trial date for Sylvester Gene Rawls, who was charged last year in the sexual assault of a student in 2003, was moved Tuesday to somewhere around Feb. 1, according to a tweet from Daily Breeze reporter Larry Altman.
The trial was originally scheduled to begin Tuesday.
Rawls is accused of sexually assaulting a 17-year-old Redondo Union student in a bathroom at the high school. Police identified him as a suspect after matching DNA found at the crime scene with a sample Rawls gave after he was convicted of manufacturing PCP.
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If convicted, Rawls faces a sentence of life in prison.
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Editor's note: The article has been updated to reflect a new trial date of somewhere around Feb. 1, not March 1 as originally reported.
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