FULLERTON, Calif. (AP) - A habitual sex offender was sentenced to 130 years to life in prison for the rape of a Brea real estate agent.

Douglas Hopper, 44, was convicted by a jury Feb. 21 of six felonies, including rape, oral copulation, burglary, felony evading and use of a dangerous weapon in the April 2000 attack on the woman, Deputy District Attorney Matt Murphy.

Superior Court Judge Gregg Prickett ruled Tuesday that Hopper, who has a 20-year history of sex offenses, was sane at the time of the crime and he imposed the life sentence, Murphy said.

Hopper was convicted in 1983 of forcible rape after breaking into an Anaheim woman's home and raping her at knifepoint, Murphy said. He was sentenced to 14 years in prison, but the conviction was overturned, with a new trial ordered. But Hopper agreed to an eight-year term, and was paroled in July 1988 after serving five years.

A year later, Hopper broke into the Brea home of a woman, sexually assaulted and robbed her. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 16 years in prison. In 1997, prosecutors filed a "sexually violent predator" petition against Hopper and he was sent to Atascadero State Hospital.

But the petition was dismissed six months later after a psychiatrist found less than a 50 percent chance that he would offend again, Murphy said. Hopper was released in 1998.

He also faces trial for raping another real estate agent in Brea in 1999.