The final chapter in Antwaan Clanton’s criminal saga ended Monday as the prosecutor and defense attorney in his second-degree rape and kidnapping case were scheduled to pick a jury.
Clanton instead opted to plead guilty to the charges lodged against him in a July case and received 117 to 150 months in the rape case and the same amount of time for the second-degree kidnapping case.
The rape case sentence will run at the expiration of time received in October when he was sentenced to 28 years under the habitual felon status.
The kidnapping sentence will run at the expiration of the rape sentence, according to Halifax County District Attorney Melissa Pelfrey.
Pelfrey said Clanton argued for a concurrent sentence but Assistant District Attorney Vershenia Moody argued against that. Judge Alma Hinton ordered the sentences run at the expiration of each other, which means Clanton will have to serve an additional 18 to 25 years following the expiration of the term given in October.
Pelfrey said Clanton decided to take the plea shortly before the lunch recess.
The victim in the rape case had flown in for the trial.