Resentencing hearing for rapist, murderer moved to August
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — The next hearing on the resentencing of notorious rapist and murderer Michael Charles Brown has been postponed to August, according to court records.
Brown, 49, had a hearing Tuesday during which the postponement was made, records show.
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A 2020 change in the law addressing enhancements for prior prison terms applies to Brown’s case. All defendants previously sentenced with that enhancement must be resentenced — but only as to that particular enhancement.
His convictions remain intact.
Brown is serving a total term of death plus 310 years to life plus 97 years for the murder of Ruby Merriweather in 2000 and a series of rapes that occurred in 2007 and 2008.
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Resentencing will likely knock about 11 years off his sentence, according to prosecutors.
Brown was a focal point of the 17 News investigation “Bakersfield’s Secret Serial Killer” by former KGET reporter Olivia LaVoice. She examined the murders of seven women in Bakersfield in the late ’90s and early 2000s and questioned whether Brown could be connected. He has not been named a suspect in any murder other than Merriweather’s.
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