Local TV stations reported from the courtroom that Sergio Jose Martinez received the sentence Friday in Portland, a day after another man in the United States illegally was found not guilty by a jury in San Francisco in the shooting death of a woman that touched off a fierce national immigration debate.
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions highlighted Martinez’s case when he visited Oregon in September.
A spokesman for the county prosecutor’s office did not immediately return a call seeking comment on the case.
On July 27, 2017, KOIN reported:
Police previously arrested the 31-year-old man linked to two violent attacks on women in Northeast Portland more than 10 times in the past decade, according to records obtained by KOIN 6 News.
Sergio Jose Martinez remains in the Multnomah County Detention Center with bail set at more than $2 million.
On Wednesday, Martinez was arraigned at the Multnomah County Justice Center on a total of 13 felonies including burglary, sodomy, sexual...
