Border agent lawyer asks court to bar video evidence in murder case
Border agent lawyer asks court to bar video evidence in murder case
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS | March 21, 2017 @ 5:02 am
TUCSON, Ariz. — The attorney for a Border Patrol agent charged with second-degree murder in the fatal cross-border shooting of a Mexican teen is asking the court to bar video evidence, saying the agency didn’t hold on to original copies of the footage.
Attorney Sean Chapman filed the motion earlier this month asking a judge to exclude the video and re-creations. Chapman says the copies are “highly compressed and deeply flawed.”
The motion was filed in the case against Lonnie Swartz, who faces trial later this year for the October 2012 shooting of 16-year-old Jose Antonio Elena Rodriguez.
Swartz is accused of firing through the border fence into Nogales, Sonora, and striking Elena Rodriguez about 10 times. He says Elena Rodriguez threw rocks at him, endangering his life. But the boy’s family says he was just walking home after a game of basketball with friends.
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