DUBLIN — A Tracy man has agreed to an eight-year jail time period for beating a fellow Santa Rita Jail inmate so badly that the sufferer’s eye fell out, courtroom data present.
Michael Angel Rodriguez, 50, pleaded no contest to assault with a lethal weapon in a plea cope with Alameda County prosecutors, courtroom data present. The prosecution dropped a felony mayhem cost towards him, and a choose has set his sentencing date for Nov. 5.
Whereas Rodriguez stays in jail for now, he might not be there lengthy. The settlement states Rodriguez shall obtain credit score for the practically six years he has spend in jail whereas the case is pending, and might cut back his sentence by 20 p.c with good conduct, giving him just a few months left behind bars, in response to courtroom data.
In 2019, Rodriguez beat a person inside a brief holding tank used to alter garments at Santa Rita Jail in Dublin, whereas an escorting Alameda County Sheriff’s deputy was close by. The deputy grabbed Rodriguez after yelling at him to cease. A surgeon later eliminated “what was left” of the sufferer’s eye, police stated in courtroom filings.
Rodriguez has a legal historical past that features 10 prior felony convictions in Alameda, Santa Clara and San Joaquin counties spanning from 1991 to 2019. These convictions together with assault with power more likely to trigger nice bodily harm, forcible rape, auto theft, possession of a firearm by a felon, grand theft and possession of medicine on the market.
