Roy Waller, the convicted serial rapist known as the “NorCal Rapist,” had his prison term reduced during a Sacramento County Court hearing on Wednesday.
Waller’s sentence dropped from 897 years to 858 years to life after one of his convictions was amended on appeal, and legal changes now make him eligible for elder parole consideration in just over a decade.
Waller, now 65, was previously convicted in 2020 of 46 felony charges involving sexual assault and home invasion across six Northern California counties. Authorities say the attacks occurred between 1991 and 2006 and affected nine different women. The Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office used DNA evidence to connect Waller to the crimes following decades of investigation.
Sentence Reduced Due to Legal Technicality
The reduction in Waller’s sentence was the result of an appellate court downgrading one of his convictions from kidnapping to false imprisonment, as the Daily Caller reports. Judge James Arguelles presided over both the original trial and the recent sentencing adjustment. The revision lowered his total sentence to 858 years to life, slightly less than the initial 897 years…