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SA man's confession to murder thrown out of US court─── 06:27 Thu, 17 Apr 2014
Austin - A South African man's apparent confession to four murders which was videotaped by Texas Rangers after his arrest, has been thrown out by a US court.
In his ruling, Judge Albert Mitchell found that Muzi Madondo's state and federal rights had been violated after his requests for an attorney as well as his request to not speak to the police had been ignored.
Madondo is to be tried before a jury in the Quay County District Court in the US state of New Mexico for two of the four murders -- those of father and son Bobby Gonzales and Gabriel Baca. Mitchell, who will preside over the trial, ruled on Monday that "the oral and video statements of the defendant are suppressed."
Madondo has pleaded not guilty to the first degree murders of Gonzales and Baca. He allegedly shot them in a motel in Tucumcari before fleeing to Texas, where he was arrested in March 2011.
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