A graduate of UC Davis law school who worked on campus tutoring students was sentenced this week to 11 years in state prison for raping two undergraduate students while the women were unconscious.

Michael Anthony Jones, 32, was sentenced in Yolo Superior Court on Tuesday after being convicted by a jury last fall of felony counts of rape of an unconscious person, one count of false imprisonment and other charges.

A motion for a new trial filed by Jones' defense attorney also was denied Tuesday by Yolo Superior Court Judge Michael Sweet, a court spokeswoman said.

Yolo County Deputy District Attorney Jay Linden, who prosecuted the case, expressed satisfaction Wednesday.

"We have a predator off the streets and justice has been served," Linden said.

The arrest of Jones in 2001 prompted officials at UC Davis to issue a campus alert warning that a man who tutored students in chemistry had been arrested for rape. The campus also filed an administrative action banning Jones from university grounds.

Jones was self-employed and had no official affiliation with the university at the time of his arrest. He was a graduate of both the undergraduate and law schools at UC Davis.

Jones was arrested Oct. 12, 2001, after an 18-year-old undergraduate said she had been raped after the two met in a Davis restaurant. The victim said she was assaulted in the defendant's apartment after consuming alcohol and falling asleep.

After the initial police report against Jones was filed, another woman came forward, saying he had assaulted her in 2000, police said. The Bee does not release names of sexual assault victims.

Jones' attorneys maintained throughout that the sex was consensual.

In a statement issued before sentencing, Jones' family vigorously defended him, calling the charges against him "slanderous and outrageously false."

The statement also said Jones' attorney, Dennis Riordan, would appeal the case. No one answered the phone at Riordan's San Francisco offices Wednesday. A relative of Jones declined to comment on the sentencing.

Described by his family as a "quintessential alumnus of UC Davis," Jones was a track star and former vice president of the Black Law School Association at UC Davis. He tutored undergraduates in chemistry and physics, and later worked as a forensic investigator for a Bay Area firm.

Jones had been free on bail until his conviction in September.