Charged therefor, Rozier turned state's evidence against the group and its leader, and was sentenced to 22 years in prison; he was paroled after ten and put into witness protection.

Born on July 28, 1955, in Anchorage, Alaska Territory, Robert Earnest Rozier Jr.[1] was a United States Air Force brat who grew up in California.

Rozier was later a student at both Grays Harbor College in Aberdeen, Washington, and the University of California, Berkeley (majoring in African-American studies), but graduated from neither school.

[2] By 1999, Rozier was living in Cameron Park, California, owned an auto detailing business in Sacramento, worked in web design, and had raised two children.

[3] At Cordova High, Rozier was an athletic wunderkind: the teen played American football as a defensive end and was "all-league, all-conference, all-Northern California."

[7] In an effort to join the Yahweh's "Brotherhood"—"a secret group […] of tall, muscular young men available for discrete missions"—Rozier undertook the initiation of killing random "white devils".

In April 1986, in the Miami neighborhood of Coconut Grove, Rozier followed a drunk white man to his apartment and killed him and his roommate with a twelve-inch (300 mm) Japanese knife.

This case relied heavily upon Rozier's claims, a vector of attack used by Yahwehs' criminal defense lawyers; Patricia Williams (defending Judith Israel a.k.a.

Over fourteen years later in March 1999, a county grand jury indicted Rozier and John Armstrong for murder; prosecutors alleged it was a sacrifice to ben Yahweh for the cult leader's impending visit to Newark, New Jersey.

In September 2000, the prosecutor's office dropped the charges, citing "insufficient credible evidence": of three crucial witnesses, one had died, a second was deported, and the third was unreliable.

[11] At the conclusion of his trial in Placerville, California, Rozier was convicted of bouncing 27 checks for a total of $2,200 (equivalent to $4,024 in 2023); he was sentenced to prison for 25 years-to-life on January 12, 2001.