The Montgomery County prosecutor, who assisted in the man’s imprisonment after he broke into his ex-wife’s apartment and sexually abused her, was interviewed by Eyewitness News.
The victim put an end to a nightmare that had persisted for almost 20 years. Early in the new millennium, the attacker and victim met in Georgia. After a brief marriage, she moved to Texas and broke up with him.
Antiwan Lane had around thirty run-ins with the law between then and 2021, and he was charged with five felonies, including statutory rape and a murder in which it was alleged that Lane paid a man to kill another.
After the case was reversed, Lane entered a guilty plea to deliberate manslaughter in 2021. Investigators claimed he flew to Texas to attack his ex-wife on the same day he entered a plea. As long as he knew his ex, Lane was accused of abusing her.
“When I choked her, she passed out, and I panicked, you know what I’m saying? Because I thought she was dead,” Lane stated.
However, Tiana Sanford from the Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office stated that Lane’s ex-partner was driven to the brink by the last assault in 2021.
He boarded a plane, entered his ex’s house, and sexually assaulted her on the same day that he entered a plea of guilty to intentional manslaughter in Georgia.
“He did so while threatening – threatening her life, threatening injury to her,” Sanford stated.
Prosecutors claimed that during the heated battle, she was flung so hard into her bathroom wall that she passed through it. The following day, when she was able to report to work, she concluded that this was the last straw. After she told her coworker, Lane was taken into custody at her residence.
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“She shared with the jury. She thought, ‘What if the next time I don’t get out of the house? What if I don’t make it out of the house the next time?'” Sanford stated.
Lane saw five different attorneys during the court hearings; he even made an effort to assault the last one physically.
After considering Lane’s past records and the present case, the jury returned a guilty verdict. He will now serve a life sentence without the possibility of release for 35 years.
“This defendant has a pattern. A pattern of rules not applying to him, a pattern of not taking no for an answer and demonstrating that he does not care who he harms in the process,” Sanford stated.
Sanford said that earlier in the year, before to Lane’s last trip, he had an amicable chat with his ex. During that trip, investigators discovered that he had hidden cameras in her smoke alarms and had been observing the victim. He was found guilty with the aid of that video.
