A detective denies that Nowak asked for an attorney and also said Nowak gave permission to search her car.
Donut eating idiots. The evidence points toward a premeditated kidnap/murder plot by Nowak and the cops blow the case.
Yep. This will be interesting to follow ........again.
Great now if she is found innocent she will be able to retire from the Navy and receive a 6,000 a month retirement. UGH!!!!!
No, a judge decided to overrule the obvious intent of the law and place unreasonable requirements on officers; including presentation and signing of a Miranda form, studio quality recording devices with infinite recording abilities, along with video recordings. Her defense lawyer decided to fire a standard scatter gun suppression motion and got the draw of a sympathetic judge, who is new to the bench and a former criminal lawyer who likely filed the same scatter gun motions.
A considerable body of evidence, from the duffel bag she had when she was arrested, including the BB gun, steel mallet, buck knife, rubber tubing and gloves, continues to be valid evidence. Odds are that the ruling will be overturned, but might not even come into it, as her attorney has hinted at seeking a not guilty verdict by reason of mental defect. Any appeal of this ruling will likely center around the map to the hotel where the car was kept that was in the duffel bag; her statements will likely be introduced by the defense if she seeks the insanity route.
I got to page 4 of the decision and quite reading. The detective needs to be fired. He is incompetent, and extremely lazy. He has no clue how to conduct an interview or interrogation, set up for one, etc. His failure to have the suspect sign the appropriate waivers is inexcusable, and allowing her to grunt, etc instead of reply in english when she was supposedly waiving her rights is nonsense.
I did not see any reference to donuts or donut eating in the transcript. Perhaps you could point it out to me.