Pedro Hernandez was arrested in 2012 after police heard that he confessed to doing something bad to Etan Patz. He quickly confessed to the child’s murder once in custody. Now his lawyer argues that the confession not only contains questionable claims, but was the result of more than seven hours of grilling by police of his mentally unstable client.
Lawyers for Donald Montanez, a Tampa tow-truck driver convicted of third-degree murder for shooting a man retrieving his towed car, argued their client deserves a new trial rather than a long prison sentence.
