SALT LAKE COUNTY, Utah (ABC4) -- Nicholas Rossi, the man who was extradited from Scotland to Utah to face 2008 rape allegations, is in court today, Oct. 20, for a sentencing hearing in Salt Lake County.

Rossi, whose legal name is Nicholas Alahverdian, is accused of faking his death to escape rape charges in Salt Lake County and Utah County. Rossi insisted that prosecutors had the wrong man, and that he was actually a man named Arthur Knight.

Rossi’s Salt Lake County trial, which focused on the rape of a 24-year-old woman in Dec. 2008, began on Aug. 11. The trial ended just two days later, on Aug. 13, when a jury found him guilty of first-degree felony rape.

His sentencing is scheduled to take place this afternoon, Oct. 20.

After being found guilty of rape in Salt Lake County, on Sept.

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