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A 42-year-old Peninsula man already serving a life sentence under California’s three-strikes law will be sentenced Friday for the 2005 rape and robbery of a Menlo Park woman.
In February, a San Mateo County jury found Quincy Powell guilty of the Oct. 3, 2005, rape and robbery of the woman inside her Menlo Park home. The woman, a high school teacher at the same school Powell attended in the 1980s, did not begin working at the school until years later and did not know Powell, according to the district attorney’s office.
Just a short time after the attack, Powell robbed a bank in Redwood City, and days later, a bank in Alameda County, according to Deputy District Attorney Greg Devitt.
Powell was arrested in Fremont and later received a life sentence for the Alameda County robbery because of three earlier convictions: a 1989 rape, a 1994 robbery and a 1997 residential burglary, all in San Mateo County, Devitt said.
For the Menlo Park attack, during which Powell reportedly stabbed the woman with a box cutter or similar knife-like weapon according to Devitt, Powell was convicted of multiple counts of sexual assault and robbery with the special allegation of the use of a deadly weapon.
Powell now faces an additional sentence that could range from 15 years to life, up to 249 years to life, according to Devitt.
Sentencing will take place at 9 a.m. in Department 25 at the Hall of Justice, 400 County Center, in Redwood City.
