Santa Monica - A man convicted of stalking film director Steven Spielberg with plans to rape him was sentenced to 25 years to life after the director asked the judge to impose the maximum sentence.
Jonathan Norman (31) was convicted earlier this year of stalking the director and was caught at Spielberg's estate with handcuffs and duct tape and prosecutors said he planned to rape the director in front of his wife.
Spielberg, reading a prepared statement from a podium in the court, asked Judge Steven Suzukawa to give Norman, whom prosecutors described as sexually obsessed with the director, the maximum sentence. Norman was caught last summer at Spielberg's estate while the director was filming Saving Private Ryan in Ireland. Norman was sentenced to 25 years to life under California's third strike law because he had two prior felony convictions.
