Fugitive Rapist Returns To Mass.

BOSTON -- A convicted rapist who was captured last week in Louisiana returned to Massachusetts Monday after being arraigned on fugitive from justice charges.

Marlon Morris, 30, formerly of Framingham, was last seen just before he fled from the Cambridge Superior Courthouse 20 minutes before convicted of child rape on Nov. 29, 2004.

Morris was arrested in New Orleans after law enforcement officials received a tip about his whereabouts when he was featured on the television show "America's Most Wanted."

In 2004, a Middlesex County jury found Morris guilty of forcible rape of a child, statutory rape of a child and indecent assault and battery on a child under 14. He fled the courthouse moments before the guilty verdict was read and he was sentenced.

"He had overheard the prosecutor say (in November 2004), 'We got him.' So he thought somehow the prosecution was in on the verdict. So it was not going to be a fair verdict, so that's why he left," said defense attorney Jay Daniel Silverman.

Authorities said Morris had been living in the New Orleans area since January 2006 and employed as a construction worker.

Morris was ordered held without bail until his sentencing hearing on Sept. 5.