Joliet man gets 90 years for rape
Prosecutors in Will County say a Joliet man convicted earlier this year of forcing his way into a woman’s home and raping her has been sentenced to 90 years in state prison.
In a news release, State’s Attorney James Glasgow says the judge on Wednesday handed down the maximum sentence to 46-year-old Russell Amos Jr.
Amos was convicted in April of aggravated criminal sexual assault and home invasion after a trial in which prosecutors alleged he’d followed a woman into her home in 2009, raped her, beat her and choked her.
Prosecutors had asked for the maximum sentence, in large part because of a violent criminal history that includes a 1988 kidnapping conviction in Georgia.
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