BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A state judge has ordered a 32-year-old Baton Rouge man to spend the rest of his life behind bars for the 1998 rape that was considered a cold case until DNA revived it several years ago.
Marice Nalls proclaimed his innocence on Monday moments before District Judge Don Johnson sentenced him to a mandatory life prison term for aggravated rape, and 15 years for armed robbery.
Nalls testified at trial that he was having casual sex with several women back in 1998, but said he did not rape anyone.
The woman testified that an unknown man raped her twice at gunpoint on Sept. 24, 1998.
Nalls told Johnson that the woman lied. The judge said the evidence indicates otherwise.
Nalls was arrested and indicted in 2007 in the 1998 case.
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