Grand jury will get case against Bernard Jackson, accused of four rapes in the 1980s (updated)

Update (4:00 p.m. May 13): The transcript from a 1977 court hearing in which a 19-year-old Bernard Jackson pleaded guilty to raping a woman and a crime against nature has been released.

At the hearing, the court finds that Jackson, a high-school dropout, doesn’t have any mental disease or defects. Jackson had claimed that he saw visions and they controlled his life.

The transcript from Jackson’s 1988 guilty plea for burglary, attempted robbery, attempted forcible rape and armed criminal action.

Meanwhile, The Kansas City Star is reporting that Jackson’s December 1984 sexual assault case in California never went to trial because authorities there believed Jackson would be serving a lengthy sentence in Missouri. Jackson served 24 years; he was originally sentenced to 30 years.