Mollie Tibbetts Trial: Defense to Claim Illegal Alien’s Murder Confession Was Coerced

[mystery-ak]

Mollie Tibbetts Trial: Defense to Claim Illegal Alien’s Murder Confession Was Coerced

John Binder 18 May 2021

Defense attorneys for the illegal alien charged with murdering 20-year-old University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts have suggested that they will claim their client’s alleged murder confession was coerced.

In August 2018, Cristhian Bahena Rivera, a 25-year-old illegal alien from Mexico, was charged with the murder of Mollie Tibbetts 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 surrounded by sanctuary cities, Breitbart News reported. He worked on a dairy farm using a stolen ID and Social Security card after allegedly crossing the U.S.-Mexico border as a child.

Following two days of jury selection, a jury of 12 jurors and three alternates have been chosen to hear the case. The Associated Press (AP) reports that Bahena Rivera’s defense team is expected to claim his alleged murder confession, which he fought vigorously to have thrown out of evidence, was coerced.

The AP reports:

A prosecutor and Bahena Rivera’s defense lawyer chose the eight men and seven women — 12 jurors and three alternates — from a pool of 183 prospective jurors after questioning them on their knowledge of the case, their opinions of his guilt and other subjects. [Emphasis added]

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Defense lawyer Chad Frese only briefly addressed his client’s immigration status and race during jury selection, saying Bahena Rivera enjoys the same rights as U.S. citizens and that his lack of English language skills could not be held against him. He suggested Monday he will argue that the confession was coerced and false and that he will cast suspicion on others for the death.

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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/05/18/mollie-tibbetts-trial-defense-to-claim-illegal-aliens-murder-confession-was-coerced/

[mystery-ak]

Defense Points Finger at Mollie Tibbetts’ Boyfriend at Trial to Exonerate Accused Illegal Alien
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/05/19/defense-points-finger-mollie-tibbetts-boyfriend-trial-exonerate-accused-illegal-alien/

[skeeter]

Mollie Tibbetts' male kin can use the same defense after running down and beating this POS to death.

[mystery-ak]

Mollie Tibbetts Trial: Illegal Alien’s Alleged Murder Confession Revealed
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/05/20/mollie-tibbetts-trial-illegal-aliens-alleged-murder-confession-revealed/

[mystery-ak]

Illegal Alien Accused of Stabbing Mollie Tibbetts Potentially 12 Times
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/05/24/illegal-alien-accused-stabbing-mollie-tibbetts-potentially-times/

[mystery-ak]

Suspect In Mollie Tibbetts Murder Delivers Shocking Testimony
https://dailycaller.com/2021/05/26/cristhian-bahena-rivera-testimony-armed-men-threats-mollie-tibbetts/

[mystery-ak]

Mexican migrant accused of killing Mollie Tibbetts testifies he was set-up by armed masked men, ordered to follow her
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2021/05/27/mexican-migrant-accused-of-killing-mollie-tibbetts-testifies-he-was-set-up-by-armed-masked-men-ordered-to-follow-her-1080041/

[mystery-ak]

Mollie Tibbetts Trial: Jury Deliberation Begins, Illegal Alien Faces First-Degree Murder Charge
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2021/05/27/mollie-tibbetts-trial-jury-deliberation-begins-illegal-alien-faces-first-degree-murder-charge/

[PeteS in CA]

Finally! Christhian Rivera gets sentenced to life without possibility of parole

https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2021/08/30/finally-christhian-rivera-gets-sentenced-to-life-without-possibility-of-parole-n412589

College student Mollie Tibbetts disappeared while jogging on July 18, 2018. More than three years later her killer Christhian Bahena Rivera finally received the maximum sentence, life in prison without possibility of parole.
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Based on the new witnesses, the defense asked the judge for a new trial and managed to delay his original sentencing. But earlier this month the judge rejected those requests in a 13-page decision which pointed out the defense attorneys themselves had decided not to pursue the alleged witnesses’ claims at the time they were first reported to them.
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In short, the claims made by this convict, Gavin Jones, were at odds with what Rivera had just said on the stand. The defense chose not to pursue them before the verdict because they knew they couldn’t do so without further undermining Rivera’s credibility.

In any case, today Rivera finally got the sentence he deserves. And the judge’s statement “You, and you alone, forever changed the lives of those who loved Mollie Tibbetts” was clearly intended to throw the bogus claims about the two masked men back in his face.

[verga]

See now if we had let him cross legally none of this would have happened.

[mountaineer]

Justice delayed, to say the least.