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BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A homeless man has pleaded not guilty to charges he followed an intoxicated woman home and raped her on a Vermont sidewalk.
Thirty-one-year-old Peter Handy entered the plea in Vermont Superior Court on Monday to charges of sexual assault without consent.
Investigators say Handy had the woman's phone number written on a piece of paper in his backpack. They say the 20-year-old woman reported getting several phone calls from Handy after she was raped on Halloween on a Burlington sidewalk.
Handy was ordered held without bail until a Nov. 17 bail hearing.
His lawyer asked that the bail hearing be set to give him more time to research his client's past.
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