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Assigned Judge Mark S. O’Connor has reopened a defense motion to throw out Brittany Pilkington’s Aug. 18, 2015, confession.
Attorneys Marc S. Triplett and Kort Gotterdam filed a paperwork in July asking the Logan County Common Pleas judge to reconsider his November finding that the 25-year-old woman’s confession was voluntary and therefore admissible as evidence in her triple murder trial.
Her confession is the foundation of the case against her as there was no evidence of homicide found by investigators and forensic pathologists.
The causes of death for her sons were recorded as undetermined after autopsies.
Neuropsychologist Dr. Jeffrey Madden and psychologist Dr. Howard Fradkin have filed affidavits in the July motion, stating they believe Pilkington’s brain damage and mental illness was so extensive that she could not fully comprehend the police interrogation she endured Aug. 18, 2015.
“The court noted (in the November decision) there was no direct evidence of Pilkington’s mentality,” the attorneys wrote in Monday’s filing. “Now there is.”
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