A rapper-actor who appeared in the 2018 film “SuperFly” was sentenced on Monday to 50 several years to lifestyle in point out prison for intercourse-relevant rates involving three teens and four youthful women of all ages in attacks dating back again to 2013.
Top-quality Courtroom Judge Joseph Brandolino also ordered Kaalan Walker, 27, to sign up as a sex offender for the relaxation of his existence, according to Deputy District Attorney Cynthia Wallace, who instructed City Information Services that she thinks the defendant is “genuinely a predator.”
A Van Nuys jury convicted Walker on April 18 of a few counts of forcible rape, two counts every of illegal sexual intercourse with a minimal and rape of an intoxicated target and a person depend of assault with intent to commit oral copulation involving crimes in between 2013 and 2018.
Jurors acquitted him of two counts of forcible rape and just one depend of forcible digital penetration involving a few other alleged victims.
In her opening assertion in March, Deputy District Legal professional Yasmin Fardghassemi told the jury that the scenario included females who failed to know every other, and that the “single matter that unites all of these women of all ages is the defendant Kaalan Walker.”
“You’re heading to see a dim side of him …” the prosecutor instructed jurors, stating Walker generally made use of Instagram and Twitter to lure his alleged victims to destinations he chose by booking them for faux photo or music movie shoots or with a fake guarantee of introducing them to somebody well known.
“When they mentioned ‘Stop,’ he failed to treatment,” Fardghassemi explained.
Walker’s lawyer, Andrew Flier, countered that his customer — whom he explained had been “portrayed as a monster” — was harmless of the prices.
“They are going to lie to you because they know that they fell for his B.S.,” the protection lawyer advised jurors, stating the alleged victims were being out for “revenge.”
“The pattern of Mr. Walker is to make fake claims, and they acquired it… Every a single of these females voluntarily produced their own selections,” Flier claimed. “He did not force them… It really is pay back-again to Mr. Walker and we’re not likely to let that transpire.”
He explained his shopper has endured “a residing nightmare” and had a wonderful profession that has considering the fact that been ruined.
Walker — who also appeared in the 2017 Halle Berry-Daniel Craig film “Kings” — was arrested in September 2018. He was subsequently produced on bond, but he was taken into custody all over again immediately after the jury’s verdict was study.
