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A 27-year-old man accused of sexually assaulting a teen eight years ago in a public bathroom in Menlo Park has pleaded no contest to a felony charge related to the assault.
Miguel Angel Jimenez, 27, was accused of sexually assaulting an 18-year-old woman the night of Aug. 17, 2011, when he was 19, according to prosecutors.
He pleaded no contest on Feb. 19 to oral copulation of an intoxicated victim on the condition that he not be sentenced to further jail time, according to the San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office.
The plea comes after a seven-day trial held last September on the case resulted in a “hopelessly gridlocked” jury, according to prosecutors, leading the judge to declare the case a mistrial.
The victim was allegedly intoxicated at Kelly Park in Menlo Park with her friends; the man, whom she did not know, allegedly forced her to “orally copulate him while she was intoxicated and without her consent” when she went to use the park’s restroom, according to a statement from the Menlo Park Police Department.
During the incident, the woman lost consciousness, police said. When she awoke, she flagged down a passerby who escorted her to a nearby clinic in Belle Haven, where she was examined and interviewed, according to prosecutors.
Sperm samples collected from her shirt were uploaded into the FBI’s Combined DNA Index System, known as CODIS, which stores DNA profiles at the local, state and national levels.
The defendant’s DNA remained in the database and was re-entered into the system by law enforcement in February 2015, according to District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe. Another entry into the system means he was arrested or convicted for something else, though information on the nature of that alleged crime was not immediately available, Wagstaffe said.
Through the DNA match system the suspect was identified as Jimenez. In August 2017, he pleaded not guilty to the charges.
The trial held last September was complicated by the fact that Jimenez failed to appear in court and a warrant was issued for his arrest, according to San Mateo County Deputy District Attorney Karen Guidotti. This time around, he was kept in custody on $1 million bail.
Jimenez was sentenced to three years of supervised probation. He received 224 days’ credit of county jail time and will have to avoid contact with the victim and pay about $400 in fees and fines.
He will have to abstain from alcohol and drugs and not possess weapons or ammunition, receive chemical and genetic marker testing, be subject to search and seizure, and undergo sex offender registration.
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