By Robert Moore, El Paso Matters An El Paso man who says police coerced a false murder confession from him when he was 16 years old, leading to 20 years in prison, has presented enough evidence to warrant a trial for his lawsuit against the city of El Paso and several police officers, a federal judge ruled. Daniel Villegas, now 48, was convicted of capital murder in 1995 and sentenced to life in prison for the 1993 drive-by shooting deaths of Armando Lazo and Robert England. The conviction was overturned in 2013 and Villegas was acquitted in 2018.

During his interrogation, Villegas alleges, Detective Alfonso Marquez hit him, threatened him with other beatings, and said he would put him in an adult jail where he would be raped if he didn’t cooperate. Villegas confessed during an interrogat

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