NEW YORK (AP) — When prosecutors announced last winter that a convicted California serial killer was being charged with two 1970s murders in New York, they said they were determined to have him brought back east from death row to face the new charges.
But Rodney Alcala is fighting to stay in California, saying he needs to remain there to work on his appeal — especially because he represented himself in a sometimes surreal trial last year, ending with his conviction in five grisly stranglings in the 1970s.
Extraditing Alcala to New York "pits his right to a meaningful capital appeal against a non-death penalty case in another state that is more than 30 years old," public …
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