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Four months later, detectives seemingly caught him confessing on a jailhouse recording that he and Dallas Pineda, 17, had brought the young women to the park and killed them.

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But the "motion to suppress" reveals for the first time his version of what led to the alleged jailhouse confession.

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In a 2024 interview with The Times, the rapper declined to discuss any potential issues with the Mexican Mafia or “jailhouse politics.”

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The longtime Orange County public defender changed local history in 2013 when he presented a judge with evidence that sheriff’s deputies had illegally used jailhouse snitches for decades.

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He did things that would be illegal today, Clark said, like planting the jailhouse informant who won Graham’s love and helped doom her.

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