In a victory for prosecutors, a judge ruled that they can use key evidence at trial against the migrant worker charged with killing University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts. Cristhian Bahena Rivera, must be suppressed because they came during an interrogation after he was not fully read his legal rights.
But Yates ruled that prosecutors can still use the information provided by Rivera that led them to the body of Tibbetts, who disappeared while out for a run in her small hometown of Brooklyn, Iowa. He also ruled that statements made by Rivera after the discovery of the body were admissible because he was read his rights at that point.Yates also ruled that Rivera gave consent to search his vehicles, so prosecutors can use blood evidence discovered in the trunk of one car that allegedly contained Tibbetts’ DNA.
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