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In hearings yesterday:
Eisenhauer:
In the hearing and in two orders filed afterward, Judge Turk dealt with motions that Eisenhauers defense team began arguing in October.
Turk denied a motion to exclude from evidence Eisenhauers cell phone, which the defense had argued was unlawfully seized by police during questioning.
Turk said that he would not rule until Feb. 5 on a defense motion to bar statements Eisenhauer made to police after invoking his right to have an attorney present; that he would wait on notice from prosecutors about which of Eisenhauers statements were likely to be used at trial.
Keepers:
Turk also denied defense motions in Keepers case this week. In an order entered Wednesday, the judge denied a defense motion to reconsider his March decision to allow into evidence incriminating statements that Keepers made to investigators. Turk also refused to bar most physical evidence connected to those statements.
Turk did say that a timeline of events that Keepers wrote out for investigators could not be used in a trial, because it was created during a time period he had already blocked from evidence.
Last year, Turk reviewed about 27 hours of recordings documenting interactions with police on Jan. 30 and Jan. 31, 2016. Asked by the defense to throw out everything investigators gained on those two days, Turk ruled that he would allow only about three hours of questioning from Jan. 30 because after a certain point, police should have read Keepers her Miranda rights. But Turk ruled last year that he would allow the entire second day of Keepers questioning because officers read the Miranda rights to her at the start of that session, and she signed a waiver of those rights and continued talking to investigators.
Turks ruling left a number of incriminating statements as potential evidence against Keepers. In recordings played during hearings last year, Keepers said that she helped choose a spot for Lovells murder and assisted in taking the body to North Carolina.
http://www.roanoke.com/news/crime/m...cle_8437ff42-43bb-5006-b660-d2afa4296f15.html
Eisenhauer:
In the hearing and in two orders filed afterward, Judge Turk dealt with motions that Eisenhauers defense team began arguing in October.
Turk denied a motion to exclude from evidence Eisenhauers cell phone, which the defense had argued was unlawfully seized by police during questioning.
Turk said that he would not rule until Feb. 5 on a defense motion to bar statements Eisenhauer made to police after invoking his right to have an attorney present; that he would wait on notice from prosecutors about which of Eisenhauers statements were likely to be used at trial.
Keepers:
Turk also denied defense motions in Keepers case this week. In an order entered Wednesday, the judge denied a defense motion to reconsider his March decision to allow into evidence incriminating statements that Keepers made to investigators. Turk also refused to bar most physical evidence connected to those statements.
Turk did say that a timeline of events that Keepers wrote out for investigators could not be used in a trial, because it was created during a time period he had already blocked from evidence.
Last year, Turk reviewed about 27 hours of recordings documenting interactions with police on Jan. 30 and Jan. 31, 2016. Asked by the defense to throw out everything investigators gained on those two days, Turk ruled that he would allow only about three hours of questioning from Jan. 30 because after a certain point, police should have read Keepers her Miranda rights. But Turk ruled last year that he would allow the entire second day of Keepers questioning because officers read the Miranda rights to her at the start of that session, and she signed a waiver of those rights and continued talking to investigators.
Turks ruling left a number of incriminating statements as potential evidence against Keepers. In recordings played during hearings last year, Keepers said that she helped choose a spot for Lovells murder and assisted in taking the body to North Carolina.
http://www.roanoke.com/news/crime/m...cle_8437ff42-43bb-5006-b660-d2afa4296f15.html
