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In this Oct. 25, 2012, file courtroom drawing, Federal Defender Julie Gatto requests bail for her client, New York City Police Officer Gilberto Valle, right, at Manhattan Federal Court in New York. The FBI claims its analysis found that 40 of Valle’s emails and chats were evidence he wanted to abduct, torture and eat women. But an agent also testified on Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013 at Valle’s federal trial that there were thousands of others the FBI concluded were mere fantasy, even though they contain the same ghoulish elements.
NEW YORK (AP) — A defense lawyer resumed his attack Thursday on the government’s claims that a city police officer conspired with Internet friends to kidnap, kill and eat women, asking an FBI agent why some communications were proof of a crime while others were deemed fantasies.
The lawyer, Robert Baum, directed FBI Agent Corey Walsh to obvious falsehoods in communications that the government has used as evidence that Officer Gilberto Valle was serious about attacking women he knew, including his wife.
In one, an Internet friend who went by the name Moody Blues insisted he and Valle would need...
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