The man suspected of being what authorities call “East Coast Rapist,” refused a plea deal today in court in Manassas, Va. Aaron Thomas, a Connecticut who allegedly raped and assaulted more than a dozen women between the 1990s and his 2009 arrest in Prince William County, was expected to plead guilty to charges that he abducted teenagers on Halloween 2009 and raping two of them.

Instead, he turned down the plea agreement and elected to stand trial, NBC4 reports:

“I don’t know which way is right and which way is wrong,” Thomas told the judge, who then called a recess.

Thomas admitted to being the East Coast Rapist in an interview published Sunday by The Washington Post. “I don’t know why I couldn’t just stop,” he told the paper.

In declining a guilty plea, Thomas will instead go to trial next January.