Lawyer: Suspect in 2008 motel killing wrongly detained
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Valentino MirandaKNOXVILLE (AP) -- The lawyer for a former Knoxville motel employee charged in the 2008 murder of a young Alabama woman says he was illegally detained.
Police have said Valentino Vasquez Miranda used a master key to enter the room of Jennifer Lee Hampton, 24, of Waterloo, Ala., at a Days Inn.
Hampton was beaten, raped and strangled and her nude body was found in a lake several days later.
Defense attorney Joe Fanduzz asked a judge on Thursday to throw out Miranda's statement to police following his arrest.
Police initially charged him with forgery, based on a fake Social Security card.
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