Defense attorneys for the man charged with murdering 20-year-old University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts filed a motion Sunday asking for another delay in the start of the murder trial scheduled to begin February 4 in Sioux City, Iowa. In the motion, the defense presents a list of reasons for its requested delay -- including the necessity to depose new “critical” witnesses brought by the state, including Tibbetts’ boyfriend, Dalton Jack. Rivera’s defense team argues the state illegally obtained Rivera’s confession via a series of methods including not properly reading him his Miranda warning and sleep deprivation. The motion points out that Tibbetts’ boyfriend, Dalton Jack, is currently deployed with the armed forces to the Middle East. In the motion, Rivera’s attorneys write that Jack failed a lie-detector test on July 27, 2018, shortly after Tibbetts went missing.

Source: Fox News January 19, 2020 16:52 UTC