A Rhode Island man accused of faking his demise and fleeing the US to evade rape prices was discovered responsible Wednesday of sexually assaulting a former girlfriend in his first of two Utah trials.
A jury in Salt Lake County discovered Nicholas Rossi responsible of a 2008 rape after a three-day trial through which his accuser and her mother and father took the stand.
The decision got here hours after Rossi, 38, declined to testify on his personal behalf.
He will probably be sentenced within the case on Oct. 20 and is about to face trial in September for one more rape cost in Utah County.
An obituary revealed on-line claimed Rossi had died on Feb. 29, 2020, of late-stage non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
However police in his dwelling state of Rhode Island, alongside together with his former lawyer and a former foster household, forged doubt on whether or not he was lifeless.
He was arrested in Scotland the next yr whereas receiving therapy for COVID-19 after hospital employees in Glasgow acknowledged his distinctive tattoos from an Interpol discover.
He was extradited to Utah in January 2024 after shedding an extradition attraction through which he claimed he was an Irish orphan named Arthur Knight who was being framed.
