A state appeals court today upheld a man’s life prison sentence without the possibility of parole for kidnapping and raping a 16-year-old girl after they got off a bus in South Los Angeles.
The three-justice panel from California’s 2nd District Court of Appeal rejected Terry Edward Scott Jr.’s claim that his sentence must be reversed based on what he contends was an improper verdict form in his trial, finding that the form “unequivocally shows that the jury found true this One Strike allegation.”
Scott, now 49, was convicted in April 2024 of one count each of rape and kidnapping to commit rape in connection with the September 2021 attack on the teenager…