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Associated Press - November 30, 2009 3:05 PM ET
HURON, S.D. (AP) - A judge says he will decide by Friday whether to suppress a recorded conversation between a police detective and Shannon Flowers, a 43-year-old Huron man charged with murder.
Flowers faces two counts of first-degree murder and an alternate count of fetal homicide in the February death of 20-year-old Brittany Chua and her unborn daughter.
Flowers' lawyer says that on the recording, authorities were trying to get Flowers to confess to the slaying. But a Huron police detective said he was only trying to keep Flowers from hanging himself the morning investigators went to question him about Chua's disappearance.
The defense also challenges whether the prosecution's pursuit of the death penalty is constitutional.
The judge granted both sides access to Chua's juvenile record but has yet to rule on motions regarding Chua's medical records, witness lists and juror questionnaires.
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