A 26-year-old Little Rock man accused of rape has accepted a 16-year prison sentence on a reduced charge of second-degree sexual assault.

Sentencing documents filed Tuesday show that Marcus Darell London Jr. he pleaded no contest to the Class B felony charge, which carries a sentence of up to 40 years in prison for repeat offenders like London who have at least four prior convictions. Rape is a Class Y felony with a term of 10 years to life for these offenders.

The sentence was imposed by Pulaski County Circuit Judge Cathi Compton, with London’s plea agreement negotiated by Assistant District Attorney Jordan Snowden and defense attorney Willard Proctor.

According to police reports and court records, the charge stems from what began as a consensual encounter involving oral sex between Walls and a woman, then 23, about five days before Thanksgiving in November 2021. in her apartment in Little Rock.

The woman told police that after their consensual date, London surprised her when he started to take down his pants. When she questioned him, London told her he would do what he wanted and held her down and forced her to have sex despite her pleas for him to stop, the woman told police.

London told her, among other things, “you’re going to have my baby,” she said.

DNA tests found London’s sperm in her underwear in November 2022, and he was arrested in March 2023, the day after police obtained an arrest warrant. He has been in custody since then.

London, with convictions for theft by receiving, breaking or entering, theft and robbery, has been in trouble with the law since he was a teenager. In May 2016, London and another teenager were caught after breaking into a car and stealing items from it at the Outlets of Little Rock, 11201 Bass Pro Parkway, reports said. Three months later, in July 2016, he was arrested again when Little Rock police found him on Geyer Springs Road with a stolen sport utility vehicle and a stolen gun.

His third arrest that year came in August 2016, when he was one of three teenagers accused of holding a 16-year-old boy the year before. The boy had come to them to buy marijuana. Charges were dropped against his co-defendants, and London pleaded guilty in January 2017 to robbery and theft in exchange for a 10-year prison sentence. He was approved for parole in May 2021.