LOS ANGELES – The California Supreme Court refused Wednesday to review the case against a man convicted of attacking his girlfriend and holding her at gunpoint in Lancaster in 2012.
Stacey Jerome Whicker, 42, was found guilty last year of seven charges, including assault with a firearm, false imprisonment and possession for sale of cocaine and possession for sale of cocaine base.
In August, a three-justice panel from California’s 2nd District Court of Appeal upheld Whicker’s conviction for the Dec. 1, 2012, attack.
Whicker punched the woman, held her down and pointed a gun at her when she tried to leave, according to the appellate court panel’s Aug. 7 ruling. The woman and her brother fled from the house after her brother stabbed Whicker with a screwdriver.
Whicker caught up with his girlfriend and forced her into a car. Cocaine and cocaine base were discovered in the vehicle after it was pulled over by Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies.
Whicker — who had prior convictions for voluntary manslaughter and robbery involving a 1992 shooting — was sentenced in April 2014 to nearly 106 years in state prison.
The appellate court panel lopped off a chunk of the sentence, ruling that Whicker’s total prison term should be 86 years and four months to life in state prison.
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miah scranton says
Sad to here that those offenses can give a person 106/now 86. Long story short say life technically it is if he’s 42. I have a old friend sunshyne who loves prison men. Knowing her ways she’ll support him. Hope men learn from this keep Your hands off women. Domestic abuse should give long sentences. I’m pretty sure this was not his first time hitting a woman.Now he definitely ca t. Amen