Alleged rapist held on $750K bail

(Josh Reynolds for The Boston Globe)

Prosecutor Jane Johnedis-Woodbury described one of the attacks, while defense attorney Eduardo Masferrer looked on.

By Brian R. Ballou, Globe Staff

A Brighton man who allegedly raped two women in his apartment in July was ordered held on $750,000 cash bail this morning, after prosecutors told a Suffolk Superior Court clerk magistrate that the man has had 32 previous entries on his criminal record, dating back to 1992.

Paul Carmichael has been charged in the July incidents with seven different offenses, including two counts of aggravated rape and two counts of kidnapping. He pleaded not guilty at his arraignment to all of the charges.

A prosecutor alleged during the hearing that Carmichael forced a 28-year-old Brighton woman to his apartment on July 5 and lured a 25-year-old Cambridge woman, an acquaintance for a year, to his apartment on July 22. Once at the apartment, he attacked both both women. He raped the first victim for most of an hour, while playing a Nirvana song titled “Rape Me,” the prosecutor said.

But Carmichael's defense attorney, Eduardo Masferrer, said both women went to the defendant's apartment willingly, engaged in consensual sex with the defendant, and left of their own accord.

Masferrer also said that all but one of the 32 entries on Carmichael's criminal record were dismissed.

Carmichael had been unemployed for three-and-a-half to four years and depends on Social Security and disability income. He is scheduled for a pretrial conference Dec. 10.

Prosecutor Jane Johnedis-Woodbury said that Carmichael was found not guilty of rape in 1992 in a case that had “a lot of similarities to the two July cases.”

A Suffolk County grand jury is investigating if Carmichael is linked to other sexual assaults.

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