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Marcelo Lucero Trial: Detective’s Notes From Jeffrey Conroy’s Confession

Posted January 20, 2010 by Ted Hesson
Categories: Hate Watch

Yesterday, the judge presiding over the trial of Jeffrey Conroy—one of the teens accused of murdering Ecuadorian immigrant Marcelo Lucero in November 2008—set the jury selection date for March 1, meaning that Conroy’s trial may hypothetically start around mid-March.
I also posted Conroy’s written confession and sketch of the crime scene yesterday.
In the written statement, which was taken by Suffolk County Police Department homicide detectives after the killing, Conroy confessed to stabbing Lucero. Judge Robert Doyle, the presiding judge, is currently considering whether or not that confession, as well as a sketch that Conroy drew of the crime scene, will be admissible as evidence in the trial.
Back in December, we covered pretrial hearings related to the admissibility of this evidence. Those posts covered Conroy’s confession to police moments after the crime occurred and the procedure used by Suffolk police detectives when they took Conroy’s statement in the hours after he was apprehended. If you read those posts, you’ll see that the hearings focused on documents like the detective’s interview notes and the prisoner activity log.
Here are the detective’s notes from their initial interview with Conroy after the killing. The interview took place between 3:30-4:15am on November 9, 2008. Based on these notes, detectives decided to ask Conroy for a more in-depth written statement, which Conroy then gave them.