Judge allows critical DNA evidence in case of slain jogger Vanessa Marcotte
CBSN
A judge denied a motion Tuesday to suppress DNA evidence collected from a man suspected of killing a Google employee from New York who went missing in 2016 while out for a run in Massachusetts, meaning it can now be admitted at trial.
Angelo Colon-Ortiz has pleaded not guilty to a murder charge in the death of Vanessa Marcotte, 27, in the town of Princeton, about 40 miles west of Boston.
Colon-Ortiz's lawyers argued in their motion that DNA samples collected from their client by state police in March 2017 were obtained illegally because police did not have a warrant, because a consent form in Spanish explaining Colon-Ortiz' rights was not properly translated, and because the state police did not send a trooper with adequate Spanish translation skills to his home.
