A Santa Clara County judge’s pretrial ruling has dramatically raised the stakes in a San Jose rape case. If convicted, 47-year-old Emari O’Garrow could face a life term under California’s habitual-offender rules. Prosecutors say he lured a woman to his apartment and raped her in February 2022; he was arrested later that month and has been held without bail at the Elmwood men’s jail in Milpitas since.
Judge Clears Norway Convictions For Use
Late last month, a Santa Clara County judge ruled that certain foreign convictions could be proven and used as prior strikes at sentencing if O’Garrow is convicted in the current case. Prosecutors say that this widens the potential penalty range and have identified several Norway-based victims as possible witnesses, as reported by The Mercury News.
His Record Abroad And Basketball Ties
European reporting shows O’Garrow moved to Sweden in 2003 and to Oslo in 2004 to play professional basketball and coach girls’ youth teams, where several complaints followed. Norwegian courts convicted him in multiple rape and sexual-assault cases from the mid-2000s through the 2010s. He served nearly a decade behind bars there, according to coverage on Lykten…