Mills changed that story later, and stated that he’d argued with his friend and eventually shot and killed him. “He remembered arguing with Trevor about Trevor wanting to kill himself, taking out the gun, setting the gun down beside Trevor, then heading inside the house to go to bed” around midnight, leaving Bartlett alone in the garage with the gun, the defense filing reads. Mills told his interviewer that he said that to scare Bartlett out of suicide, to drive home the reality of it. 45 pistol and challenging Bartlett to “just do it already.” In a moment of frustration during the drunken argument of March 25-26, Mills remembered taking out his Glock. Mills told the detective that Bartlett often discussed committing suicide and that he, Mills, often tried to help him out of that thinking. “Mario described getting into an argument with Trevor because Trevor wanted to take a spur-of-the-moment trip to Alzada, Montana and Mario did not want to go,” it reads. The filing by the defense sheds more detail upon Mills’ relationship with his friend. LeBrun also called the detective’s questioning “limited and non-threatening.” Bartlett,” countered LeBrun, adding that Mills was then “formally placed under arrest” at the end of the interview. The “defendant was told he could not speak to his wife or have a cigarette, however, these statements were made to him after he had confessed and detailed his killing of Mr. In his own filing dated July 13, Fremont County Attorney Patrick LeBrun, who is prosecuting Mills, wrote that those limitations to Mills’s freedom came after, not before, Mills confessed to shooting his friend. “(The detective) prohibited Mario from leaving the interview room, from talking to his wife or making any phone calls, and even from stepping outside the police station to smoke a cigarette,” the motion reads. If Conder decides Mills had reason to believe he was being confined, the interview will be thrown out of the evidence pool because it was not preceded by a reading of Mills’ Miranda rights. The dispute soon to be heard by the judge is whether the RPD detective’s actions would have made a reasonable person believe that he was not free to leave the interview. The filing was submitted in late June by Mills’ attorneys Donald fuller, Robert Oldham, and Ryan Semerad. “Even so,” wrote defense attorneys “(the detective) started to interrogate an exhausted, hungover Mario about an evening he could barely remember.” The plea argues further that Mills was operating on seven wakeful hours and only two hours of sleep. Mills’ wife went to bed before midnight, according to all statements given, and woke sometime after Bartlett had died of a gunshot wound to his left temple.ĭuring his interview, Mills spent about half an hour insisting that Bartlett was “in a dark place” philosophically and had killed himself in the garage after Mills went to bed.Īccording to a request from the defense for Fremont County District Court Judge Jason Conder to disregard Mills’ RPD interview, Mills was “still drunk from the night before (and) could not remember many details of the night in question.” Thirty-seven-year-old Trevor Bartlett had been drinking with Mills and his wife the night of March 25. “Oh (expletive)… I shot Trevor” is the statement of confession Mills gave to a Riverton Police Department detective during his March 26 interview – hours after Mills’ best friend was found dead in the former’s garage on Sunset Drive in Riverton. RIVERTON – Accused of shooting his friend in the head, Mario Mills, 37, has disputed whether the confession he made during a police interview can be used in court under constitutional parameters. Updated: 2 years ago / Posted Aug 11, 2020 By: Clair McFarland The Ranger Via Wyoming News Exchange
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