Defense: League City woman was off meds, high when she confessed to killing mom
by Chris Paschenko / The Galveston Daily News
Posted on March 4, 2010 at 9:22 AM
LEAGUE CITY, Texas — Defense attorneys Wednesday attacked the validity of a videotaped confession, saying their bipolar client was off her medication and high on cocaine and ecstasy when she told police she had strangled her mother.
Erin Ashlyn Moffatt, 20, admitted during her interview with League City police that she strangled her mother, Jana S. Moffatt, 47, and helped dump her body in a Brazoria County oil field.
During the second day of testimony in Moffatt’s murder trial, defense attorney G. Byron Fulk questioned Cory Beyer, the lead investigator in the case.
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