SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (KRON) -- A tech executive's convicted killer is asking a judge to throw out his murder conviction based on a letter that he claims contains a written confession from one of his three co-defendants.

The hand-written letter is titled, "Dear Best Friend," has the message "Read & Destroy" at the top, and is signed with the name "Josh."

Stephen Nicholas Lindsay, 27, was convicted by a jury in March of murdering, robbing, and kidnapping a millionaire tech executive, Tushar Atre, in Santa Cruz County. After Lindsay was sentenced to serve life in prison without the possibility of parole, Lindsay wrote his own habeas corpus petition from his jail cell and filed it in Santa Cruz County court. The letter is included as evidence in the petition.

Prosecutors said Lindsay, Joshua

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