An attorney for one of the suspects in an alleged murder plot at Lake Brantley High School has filed a motion to suppress all evidence obtained through what they termed an ‘illegal seizure, search, and subsequent questioning,’ court records show.

Case Background

Isabelle Valdez and Lois Lippert, both 15, face attempted murder charges for an alleged plan that was uncovered in January. Police said the two had planned to stab a classmate to death because of a belief that he resembled the shooter in the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

Valdez is accused of planning the attack while Lippert is accused of helping gather the items to do it, including a knife. A tip led to them being taken into custody.

Since their arrest, developments in the case have included a letter that Valdez wrote to the judge in May, additional charges against Valdez in June — those being 10 counts of possession of child sexual abuse material — and a statement later that month from Valdez’s attorney that he was trying to work out an agreement with prosecutors to avoid a trial.

The motion to suppress was filed on Valdez’s behalf and claims Valdez was never told why she was in trouble until hours after she was detained by a security guard. It goes on to state detectives lacked probable cause because they relied on an uncorroborated anonymous tip.

Referencing the Fourth, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, the motion requests that all tangible or intangible evidence obtained during and after ‘the illegal seizure, search, and questioning of Ms. Valdez,’ including all statements made by the teen and ‘any alleged confessions,’ be suppressed.

Original reporting: WESH Orlando — read the source article.