Confession Is Allowed in Trial Over Slain Hunters
A judge ruled in Hayward that prosecutors may use at trial the alleged confession of a man accused of killing six deer hunters during a confrontation in November.
Sawyer County Circuit Judge Norman Yackel also dismissed a defense attempt to have Chai Soua Vang’s trial moved to another county because of extensive publicity.
Vang, 36, of St. Paul, Minn., testified at the hearing that he told a detective he wanted a lawyer before talking about the shootings, then changed his mind. “He readily admitted that he understood what he was doing,” the judge said.
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