• Mollie Tibbetts' accused killer not properly read Miranda rights: court

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    The illegal immigrant accused of fatally stabbing 20-year-old
    University of Iowa college student Mollie Tibbetts wasn’t
    properly read his Miranda rights, recently-filed court documents
    say.

    Prosecutors admitted that an officer “inadvertently” failed to
    tell Cristhian Bahena Rivera that anything he said could be used
    against him when he was busted for murder around 11:30 p.m. on
    Aug. 20 of last year, according to court filings reported by the
    Des Moines Register.

    His rights were properly read to him at around 5:50 a.m., as he
    sat in a vehicle near the cornfield where Tibbetts’ body was
    found, the state said in the documents filed Friday.

    Prosecutors agreed that any statements Rivera, now 25, made
    between that time frame shouldn’t be used as evidence in his
    trial, but argued that they could be used to refute testimony.
    The defense argues they shouldn’t be used at all.

    Defense lawyers also claim police deceived Rivera by promising
    him that admitting to the grisly killing could be beneficial,
    which they said can “induce false confessions.”

    During Rivera’s interview, one of the officers told him: “Help
    yourself, do it for yourself, think about you,” according to an
    official transcript cited in court records.

    “Think about your daughter that will need you. Right now, don’t
    you see that little face of that little girl?” the officer added.
    But prosecutors argue all the evidence points to Rivera as “the
    killer, not a false confessor.”

    Rivera was seen near Tibbetts when she vanished July 18, 2018
    after going for a run in her tiny hometown of Brooklyn,
    authorities said. Her blood was found in the trunk of his car,
    they said.

    He also led cops to Tibbetts’ body at the end of the interview,
    prosecutors said.

    A judge is expected to decide what evidence will be allowed at
    trial during a court hearing Tuesday.

    https://nypost.com/2019/10/21/mollie-tibbetts-accused-killer-not- properly-read-miranda-rights-court-docs/

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