LEWISTON (AP) — A lawyer for a 13-year-old boy charged with setting a fire in Lewiston that destroyed three apartment buildings and left 75 people homeless wants statements the teen made to police suppressed.
Attorney Alan Lobozzo told a judge Monday that statements the boy made to an investigator should be inadmissible as evidence because the boy was not immediately read his Miranda rights.
The judge did not rule and continued the hearing until Friday.
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