Suspected Killer of Transgender Prostitute Given Hefty Sentence for Other Crimes
By Ashley Harrell in Crime
Mon., Jan. 25 2010 @ 6:14PM
http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2010/01/suspected_rapist_and_murderer.phpSitting in Department 10 on Monday afternoon, Donzell Francis, 41, didn't react as the judge sentenced him to the maximum sentence of 17 years and 8 months in state prison. The convicted sexual predator and suspected murderer and rapist of transgender prostitutes just stood up to be handcuffed, retrieved his cane, and hobbled back to the jail.
In late December, a jury had convicted him of forcible oral copulation, robbery, assault, and causing great bodily injury to Lena, a transgender prostitute whom he picked up in the Tenderloin in September of 2007. She wasn't Francis's first victim, and police are still unraveling multiple sexual assault cases that he appears to be involved with.
