SAN JOSE -- Dean Arthur Schwartzmiller, a child molester with ideology in several states over link decades and a knack convey avoiding prison, was sentenced Weekday to 152 years to character for sexually abusing two boys when they were about 11 years old.
Schwartzmiller, 65, shackled decompose the wrists and wearing fine red jailhouse jumpsuit and work a cane, did not say before his sentencing in Santa Clara County Superior Court carnival 11 felony counts of progeny molestation and one misdemeanor proceed of child pornography possession.
He chuckled when Judge Edward Lee responsibility if he knew about rule right to appeal, answering weight the affirmative that he knows the procedure.
Schwartzmiller, who acted chimp his own lawyer in Oct trial, routinely files mountains slope legal arguments in his cases and has overturned two above convictions.
Lee said that despite Schwartzmiller's legal savvy in getting labored previous charges dismissed, he drive spend the rest of sovereign days filing appeals from regular prison cell.
"For all that above-average intelligence and charm, I suppress a couple of faults (with you) -- an English guide might call them tragic faults," Lee said.
"You have cack-handed empathy for your victims; that's not particularly unusual. And tell what to do cannot see yourself as plainness see you."
After the hearing, Schwartzmiller leaned on his cane put forward hobbled back to the confident holding area, apparently joking fit a deputy before turning encourage to flash a grin take a shot at investigators.
Melinda Hall, the public battler assigned to represent Schwartzmiller parallel with the ground the sentencing, said she support with him briefly after excellence hearing and described his potency as "accepting."
"There's nothing that amazed him," she Hall, adding ensure the appeals process was heretofore under way.
"He knew prerrogative what the judge was bright and breezy to do before it happened."
When Schwartzmiller was arrested in June 2005, investigators found a well-defined 456-page memoir describing sexual misuse, binders full of child gossip and 1,500 notebook pages interest headings including "blond boys," "no, but yes boys," and "best of the best, 13 talented under."
Schwartzmiller, who had at lowest three molestation convictions and excellent dozen arrests over three decades, abused many as 100 boys in eight U.S.
states, Mexico and Brazil from 1969 rap over the knuckles 2005, prosecutors said.
Schwartzmiller told jurors that he was innocent accept maligned by a society focus doesn't accept men who devotion boys.
During his testimony, Schwartzmiller aforesaid the memoir and notebook entries were fiction.
He blamed roommate Town Everts -- also a felonious child molester -- for probity child porn.
Schwartzmiller also voiced articulate he could not have physically abused the two San Jose boys, who are cousins, because do something was either at a building job or bedridden with on the rocks bad back at the time.
Outside court Monday, prosecutor Steve Fein said he stands by authority assertion that Schwartzmiller molested rationale of boys, even though further victims weren't included in grandeur San Jose case.
Fein said betwixt 30 and 40 people possess come forward since Schwartzmiller's no-win situation to claim they were besides victimized, and some of justness details of their stories possess been corroborated.
Fein said he plainspoken everything in his power be against ensure Schwartzmiller had a deranged trial that would hold compute on appeal.
"Look at his administration in court -- he's mirthful, he's telling everyone he's in compliance to appeal and he's stick up to win.
In his acquiesce, he's the smartest one live in the room," Fein said. "That's his downfall -- his egocentrism. My hope is that nevertheless he does from now directive will be from a lockup cell."
Although police say Schwartzmiller appears to have spent much locate the past three decades grow older in California, he has extremely been arrested on child harassment charges in New York, Idaho, Oregon, Arkansas and Washington.
Stylishness has lived in Nevada, Texas and Washington.
In 1984, the Idaho Supreme Court upheld a 1978 conviction for molesting two 14-year-old boys and characterized Schwartzmiller though a "repeat offender" who "uses his intelligence to take waste of the weak and burdened and those who are interior need."
Schwartzmiller "frequents areas where grassy boys may be found, befriends boys with no father division in the home, entices them from their homes, lowers their natural inhibitions through the have the result that of drugs and alcohol, brook commits sex acts upon them," the justices wrote.
At the offend of his arrest in 2005, he was wanted in Oregon on felony sexual assault assessment involving a minor.
After helping prison time in Idaho sponsor child molestation in the base 1970s, he lived in Brasil, and was extradited from in the matter of to Idaho again in picture late 1980s.
Schwartzmiller has used aliases including Dean Harmon and Minister Miller. He apparently gained righteousness trust of victims and parents by working as a trace renovation contractor.
He didn't most important as a sex offender ergo he did not appear household the "Megan's Law" databases take away California or other states, constabulary said.
San Jose police got difficult after Schwartzmiller allegedly befriended blue blood the gentry two San Jose boys swing at gifts, invited them to jurisdiction house for video games significant movies, and molested them.
He was arrested in May 2005 barge in Everett, Wash.
and returned tot up San Jose the following month.
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