Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Arthur Henderson was convicted Feb. 11 after jurors deliberated less than four hours.
Allegheny County Common Pleas Court Judge Donna Jo McDaniel on Tuesday sentenced Arthur Lamont Henderson to spend 61 to 122 years in prison for raping and robbing two women in Ross Township and another in Hopewell Township in January 2012. Before imposing the sentence, McDaniel told Henderson she regarded him as a "serial rapist and a sociopath" who has demonstrated, after spending several years in prison for other crimes, that he has "no ability to rehabilitate" and is the "definition of dangerous." The judge said the case was "one of the most horrible" she's ever heard. Prior to Henderson's sentencing, all three of his victims spoke, each asking the judge to impose the maximum sentence. One of the women said she carried scars that are "…
Friday, February 8, 2013
The prosecution rested its case Friday morning.
The final three witnesses for the prosecution in the rape trial of Arthur Henderson testified Friday morning that his DNA linked him to the sexual assaults of two women in Ross Township, and one in Hopewell in January of 2012, KDKA-TV reported. All three also said that the chance that the DNA was not Henderson measured into the quintillions. “Does the DNA results tell whether the sex was consensual?” asked Henderson, who is representing himself. "No," one witnesses answered, KDKA reported. The prosecution rested its case this morning and Henderson's defense has begun. Defense witnesses are expected to include doctors who performed rape exams on the women and other investigators, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported. The charges against …
Henderson, who is representing himself, said the videos do not prove anything.
The prosecution in the trial of Arthur Lamont Henderson on Thursday used surveillance camera videos to show his alleged whereabouts on the day he is accused of raping a woman in Ross Township, according to local media reports. But Henderson, who is representing himself, countered that the videos do not prove anything, KDKA reports. The 39-year-old North Side man is charged with raping and robbing two women in Ross and one in Hopewell in January 2012. One video shows a man in a gray hooded sweatshirt walking down a hallway leading to a Citizens Bank ATM in Manchester where police say the man tried to use three credit cards belonging to a Ross Township woman who had just been raped, according to KDKA. Henderson cross-examined detectives and …
Thursday, January 31, 2013
Arthur Lamont Henderson has been in the Allegheny County Jail since his arrest a year ago.
Jury selection begins Thursday in the trial of Arthur Lamont Henderson, who is charged with raping and robbing women in Ross and Hopewell a year ago. Henderson, 39, of the North Side, has been in the Allegheny County Jail since his arrest Jan. 20, 2012. The charges against Henderson stem from two 2012 attacks on Ross Township women—one reported Saturday, Jan. 7, at the Woodhawk Club Apartments complex on Johnanna Drive and the other Monday, Jan. 9, at the Cascades Apartment complex off Cemetery Lane. In both cases, women in their mid-20s were attacked early in the morning after returning from walking their dogs, police said. Hopewell Township Police also filed charges against Henderson for a sexual assault that occurred Jan. 7—the same …
Monday, September 17, 2012
Jury selection was to have begun today for Arthur Lamont Henderson.
A change in defense counsel has delayed the trial of a 38-year-old North Side man charged with raping and robbing two women in Ross, and another in Hopewell, within a four-day period in Ross Township. Arthur Lamont Henderson, who has been in the Allegheny County Jail on a $2.5 million bond since his arrest January 20, had been scheduled to go on trial today. A new trial date is expected to be set today. He has pleaded not guilty. The charges against Henderson stem from two attacks on Ross Township women—one reported Saturday, Jan. 7 at the Woodhawk Club Apartments complex on Johnanna Drive and the other Monday, Jan. 9 at the Cascades Apartment complex off Cemetery Lane. In both cases, the women, who are in their mid-20s, were attacked in …
Friday, February 10, 2012
Henderson will remain in the Allegheny County Jail until his trial, which will be months away.
Arthur Lamont Henderson pled not guilty in a preliminary hearing today to the charges he faces in Ross for the rapes and robberies of two women in early January. Henderson, 38, of the North Side, also pled not guilty to charges related to the rape and robbery of a third woman in Hopewell Township and the assault of a man in Ohio Township. All four attacks took place within a four day period, between Jan. 7 and Jan. 10. All four cases were consolidated for today's hearing and brought specially before Magisterial District Judge Richard Opiela to preside over. Opiela held all charges for trial, said Mike Manko, the spokesman for the Allegheny County District Attorney's Office. Henderson will remain in the Allegheny County Jail. A $2.5 …
