Lawyer convicted of sexual assault gets 21 years in prison
A Milwaukee attorney was sentenced Friday to 21 years in prison after a jury convicted him in May of sexually assaulting a woman in 2022. (Photo by SimpleImages/Getty Images)
A Milwaukee attorney was sentenced Friday to 21 years in prison after a jury convicted him in May of sexually assaulting a woman in 2022.
The victim told the court that lawyer Robert L. Taylor, 79, repeatedly choked her during a violent rape and said she continues to suffer post-traumatic stress and fears ongoing threats tied to the case.
Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Laura Crivello handed down the prison term, ordered 15 additional years of extended supervision and credited Taylor with 82 days already served. According to Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Crivello said the court record reflected an escalating pattern of abuse as she explained the reasons for the sentence.
Coverage of the story is in Hoodline.com, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and the Wisconsin Law Journal.
The case began after a 911 call in 2022 during which the woman asked to be taken to a hospital and a man on the line identified himself as an attorney, according to the criminal complaint. Medical staff later documented injuries consistent with an assault, and court filings say the woman told police that she had been attacked first at a hotel and then again at Taylor’s Milwaukee apartment.
In court and in a written statement, Taylor denied wrongdoing and claimed that attorneys had fabricated allegations against him.
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