A western Pennsylvania judge will allow prosecutors to use statements allegedly made by a man arrested in the beating deaths of a woman and her adult son.
Forty-year-old Robert Briestensky of Brackenridge is charged in Westmoreland County with first-degree murder and other counts in the deaths of 46-year-old Bonnie Lee Broadwater and 24-year-old Lance Holt.
The bodies were discovered in October 2012, about five days after police said the victims were beaten to death, possibly with a baseball bat.
Defense attorney Greg Cecchetti said Briestensky's statements should be barred from evidence because his client was a suspect when he was questioned.
Prosecutors said the statements were legally obtained because Briestensky wasn't in police custody.
The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports that a judge sided with prosecutors Tuesday.
