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Article: Brown's defendant wants confession tossed.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
- Article date:
- September 21, 2007
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Byline: Mary Owen
Sep. 21--James Degorski acknowledges killing two of the seven people slain in the 1993 Palatine Brown's Chicken and Pasta massacre in a 4.5-minute videotaped confession, which his attorneys argued Thursday should be suppressed because it was given after more than a day of physical and emotional abuse by authorities.
In the 2002 videotape, aired for the first time Thursday in Cook County Circuit Court, Degorski tells a prosecutor that he and Juan Luna had planned a robbery at the fast-food restaurant.
Luna was sentenced last month to life in prison without parole after his conviction for the worst mass murder in the Chicago area ...