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Prosecutors can use at trial admissions made by a deputy U.S. marshal who is charged with leaking that an Outfit figure was secretly cooperating in a probe of decades-old mob murders, a federal judge ruled Friday.
U.S. District Senior Judge John Grady found that U.S. Atty. Patrick Fitzgerald acted properly during the 2006 interrogation of the deputy marshal, John Ambrose.
Ambrose's lawyer, Francis Lipuma, sought to have the admissions thrown out, arguing Fitzgerald and Robert Grant, Chicago's top FBI official, should have advised Ambrose of his legal rights.
The judge's ruling hinged on whether Ambrose was under arrest when he was confronted at FBI headquarters in Chicago. Fitzgerald testified in court that he specifically told Ambrose he was not under arrest.
Fitzgerald's "testimony has been unflagging on this subject," Grady said in ruling from the bench. "I believe his testimony. I find it credible."
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U.S. District Senior Judge John Grady found that U.S. Atty. Patrick Fitzgerald acted properly during the 2006 interrogation of the deputy marshal, John Ambrose.
Ambrose's lawyer, Francis Lipuma, sought to have the admissions thrown out, arguing Fitzgerald and Robert Grant, Chicago's top FBI official, should have advised Ambrose of his legal rights.
The judge's ruling hinged on whether Ambrose was under arrest when he was confronted at FBI headquarters in Chicago. Fitzgerald testified in court that he specifically told Ambrose he was not under arrest.
Fitzgerald's "testimony has been unflagging on this subject," Grady said in ruling from the bench. "I believe his testimony. I find it credible."
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