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Defense: 'Sleep Deprivation' Made Illegal Confess to Killing Mollie Tibbetts

posted onNovember 18, 2019
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Article snippet: In August 2018, Cristhian Bahena Rivera, a 25-year-old illegal alien from Mexico, was charged with Mollie Tibbetts’ murder after police said he admitted to confronting and chasing down the young woman. Following a nationwide search, Tibbetts’ body was found in a cornfield in Poweshiek County, Iowa. The illegal alien lived in a region of Iowa that was surrounded by sanctuary cities, as Breitbart News noted, and worked on a dairy farm using a stolen ID and Social Security card after allegedly crossing the U.S.-Mexico border as a child. Last week, an interrogation expert for the defense took the stand to claim that Bahena Rivera’s confession to murdering Tibbetts was due to “sleep deprivation.” “Based on the sleep deprivation aspect and the amount of various techniques that were used, I would in my opinion not take a lot of what was said as credible,” Brian Leslie told the court of the murder confession. The claim comes as Bahena Rivera’s attorneys have worked tirelessly to ensure that their client’s murder confession is thrown out before the trial begins next year. His attorneys have said that Bahena Rivera’s “constitutional rights” were violated when police questioned him. Already, Bahena Rivera has successfully gotten the murder trial against him moved to February 2020. The defense said they needed more time to gather expert witnesses and time to convince Judge Joel Yates to bar the murder confession from being used as evidence in the trial. According to prosecut... Link to the full article to read more

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