COURTHOUSE - A former Ambler man who compressed a woman's windpipe to the point she lost consciousness and then raped her in a Norristown park has been classified as a sexually violent predator.
Montgomery County Judge Carolyn T. Carluccio, after reviewing various psychological reports and hearing testimony from a state sexual offender evaluator on Tuesday, determined that James Joseph Burrell, 50, meets criteria under Pennsylvania's Sexual Offender Registration and Notification Act to be classified as a sexually violent predator.