Vance evidence survives
Judge sees no coerced confession in Pressly case
Posted: October 9, 2009 at 4:38 a.m.
Curtis Lavelle Vance talks to reporters before entering the courtroom for the third day of a hearing in his capital-murder case in the death of Anne Pressly earlier this month.
Testifying against the advice of his attorneys, the Marianna man accused of raping and killing TV news anchor Anne Pressly said Wednesday that he is the victim of a frame-up by investigators who threatened and abused him before getting him to implicate himself in the slaying through “police trickery.”
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