‘I was just trapped’: Judge upholds rape case against cab driver who allegedly waited for women outside Santa Rita Jail

DUBLIN — Jane Doe was tired, fresh out of jail and out of money. Then, she testified, the cab driver she’d agreed to go with to a local hotel began making sexual advances.

“I just kind of feel like I was stuck. Like I was just trapped,” Doe testified at a Jan. 22 preliminary hearing. “You know, feeling like: What have I got myself into once again?”

At the hearing’s end, an Alameda County Superior Court judge ordered 65-year-old Gulagha Khalili to stand trial on charges of rape and forcible oral copulation of Doe...