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Sean Patrick Banks, 39, must serve 85 percent of the sentence
before becoming eligible for parole, attorney Gloria Allred
said.
Banks, a former U.S. Navy lieutenant, was convicted of two
counts of forced penetration, one count of forcible rape, one
count of rape of an intoxicated woman and one count of burglary
in the commission of one of the rapes by a San Diego County jury
in June.
Banks said he would waive his right to appeal the ruling if the
victims were made to take a polygraph test, according to Allred.
"To now suggest that the victims should take a polygraph test
after they endured cross examination and the jury found beyond a
reasonable doubt that Banks was guilty is insulting to the jury
and the victims," Allred said in an email.
Banks attorney, Brian White, could not be immediately reached
for comment on Friday. White said after the conviction that
there was no forensic evidence that the women had been raped.
Banks was arrested last year on charges of rape with a foreign
object, forcible rape and burglary in the 2012 rape of a woman
he met through ChristianMingle.com. Later, a second victim came
forward to recount being raped in 2009, and additional charges
were added.
Forensic evidence from Banks' computer showed he used false
identities to trawl for victims on dating sites including
ChristianMingle.com, Match.com and PlentyofFish.com, according
to prosecutor Daniel Williams III.
At one point in 2011, Banks flew to London to meet a former Miss
California contestant who later told authorities about "a very
frightening encounter she had with Banks," Williams said.
Prosecutors accused Banks of contacting the woman after he was
charged and telling her that if she came forward, she would face
obstruction of justice prosecution. But the jury found him not
guilty of that charge.
(Reporting by Curtis Skinner in San Francisco, editing by
William Hardy)
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