An alleged East Bay serial rapist signed his life away, then asked his lawyer when he could go home. The plea deal unraveled from there

OAKLAND — More than two years after an accused East Bay serial rapist essentially agreed to a life sentence through a plea deal, a superior court judge has made a rare decision to allow him to backtrack, erasing the agreement and restarting the case from square one.

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