Though he's sitting on death row in California's notorious San Quentin State Prison, serial killer and rapist Rodney James Alcala isn't done complaining about his treatment in Orange County.
This month, Alcala filed his 17th lawsuit in Orange County Superior Court.
His targets this time?
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Two Orange County Sheriff's Department deputies–T. White and M. Genovese–whom he claims roughed him up and allowed another inmate to spit on him in February 2010 during his death-penalty trial.
Alcala says he suffered a “welt” on his forehead and wants $250 in damages for the alleged negligence.
According
to an official report of the jailhouse attack, a 26-year-old fellow
inmate attacked the then-66-year-old Alcala and called him a “punk.”
Though Alcala wanted to press assault charges against Juan Manuel Hernandez, prosecutors refused to file a case.
In 2010, homicide prosecutor Matt Murphy won a serial-killer conviction against Alcala, who represented himself during the trial.
–R. Scott Moxley / OC Weekly
CNN-featured investigative reporter R. Scott Moxley has won Journalist of the Year honors at the Los Angeles Press Club; been named Distinguished Journalist of the Year by the LA Society of Professional Journalists; obtained one of the last exclusive prison interviews with Charles Manson disciple Susan Atkins; won inclusion in Jeffrey Toobin’s The Best American Crime ReportingĀ for his coverage of a white supremacist’s senseless murder of a beloved Vietnamese refugee; launched multi-year probes that resulted in the FBI arrests and convictions of the top three ranking members of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department; and gained praise fromĀ New York Times Magazine writers for his “herculean job” exposing entrenched Southern California law enforcement corruption.