A conference hearing in a Riley County court case now before the U-S Supreme Court has been set for January eighth. That’s according to Jennifer Rapp with Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt’s office, when asked about the status of the Luis Aguirre double murder case.
As KMAN reported a few months ago, Schmidt’s office filed a 94 page petition with the U-S Supreme Court in September regarding the 2009 murders of Tanya and Juan Maldonado. The petition asks whether a request to temporarily cease questioning of Aguirre was a clear assertion of the right to remain silent and whether the use of the phrase “I Guess” along with an explicitly expressed desire to continue talking to police is an assertion of that right to remain silent under the Fifth Amendment.
The Kansa Supreme Court had been sharply divided on the matter this past May, eventually holding Aguirre had invoked his right to remain silent when he said he wanted to return his current girlfriend’s child to the child’s family, but would then come back to help officers.
