LIMA, Peru – Joran van der Sloot has sued the lawyer who represented him during a police interrogation on the day that authorities say the Dutchman confessed to killing a Peruvian woman, his current attorney said Saturday.Maximo Altez told The We have searched the name of Luz Romero Chinchay in the list of public defenders provided by the Ministry of Justice and his name was not on that l
LIMA, Peru – A Peruvian judge on Friday denied a defense motion to void the confession of Joran van der Sloot in the murder of a 21-year-old Lima student because the attorney representing him at the time was state-appointed.Superior Court Judge Wilder Casique rejected the habeus corpus motion on behalf of Van der Sloot, who is jailed pending trial on charges of first-degree murder and robbe
LIMA, Peru – Murder defendant Joran van der Sloot has refused to discuss his case with the Peruvian judge assigned to it.Judge Carlos Morales visited the 22-year-old Dutchman on Monday at Castro Castro prison in eastern Lima.Van der Sloot is charged with murder in the May 30 killing in his hotel room of a 21-year-old Lima woman he met playing poker.He also remains the prime suspect in the 2
AMSTERDAM – Joran van der Sloot, the main suspect in the killing of a young woman in Peru last month and in the 2005 disappearance of U.S teenager Natalee Holloway, suffers from mental problems, his mother told a Dutch newspaper in an interview published on its website Sunday. My son is sick in his head, De Telegraaf quoted Anita van der Sloot as saying in her first public comment since h
LIMA, Peru – A prison compound on the dusty outskirts of Peru's capital is home to hundreds of convicts from Peru's leftist insurgency of the 1980s and 90s.It holds more than 80 foreign inmates, mostly Colombians and Mexicans there for drug-related crimes.And then there is Joran van der Sloot.The 22-year-old Dutch murder suspect in the May 30 killing of 21-year-old Lima student Stephany Flo
LIMA, Peru – The recently hired Peruvian defense attorney for accused murderer Joran van der Sloot said Tuesday that he's quitting after receiving death threats. I've received threats, many threatening e-mails.I'm an older person.This isn't for me, Maximo Altez, 54, told The He would not describe the threats in a brief telephone conversation, saying only that he would stop representing th
ORANJESTAD, Aruba – Natalee Holloway's father was back in Aruba on Monday, hoping the suspect in his daughter's disappearance has provided local authorities with new clues since being arrested for the killing of a 21-year-old woman in Peru.Dave Holloway planned to discuss the latest developments with prosecutors and investigators at a meeting Tuesday, said Tim Miller, a friend and the found
LIMA, Peru – Angry onlookers shouted Disgrace! and Murderer! at Joran van der Sloot on Friday after a judge ordered him jailed on first-degree murder and robbery charges in the beating and strangling death of a young Lima woman.Prosecutors said the Dutchman, who was taken to a segregated block of an eastern Lima prison, acted with ferocity and great cruelty in killing 21-year-old busi