Murder Case Update: Defendant’s Request Denied

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October 21, 2021

By News Director Jared Atha

A Custer County judge denied a murder suspect’s motion to dismiss evidence during a motion hearing held last Friday.

According to court records, 38-year-old Dennis Ray Rigsby, Jr., of Oklahoma City, filed a petition to dismiss evidence from body camera footage during his arrest and inform the jury any evidence used is “for interpretation reasons only,”.

Rigsby is facing a charge of first degree murder – deliberate intent after being accused of killing his mother in June 2020 at an I-40 convenience store east of Clinton.

According to the filing, Rigsby claimed that he pleaded the 5th Amendment stating that the footage on an officer’s body camera could not but submitted as evidence, and used against him in the upcoming murder trial.

A judge, however, denied the motion saying the statements made by Ribsby on the footage are admissible. The judge went on to say, in part that Rigby’s statements were “spontaneously uttered…and not given in response to questioning by law enforcement.”.

Court documents also revealed that statements given to an agent with the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation by Rigsby are also admissible for the same reasons.

A jury trial has been scheduled for November 15.

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