Defense attorneys for the woman shot by Border Patrol in Brighton Park this month want a hearing “as soon as possible” after the agent who opened fire drove his vehicle to Maine before the woman’s attorneys could inspect it.

Chris Parente, who represents Marimar Martinez, says it’s not clear who allowed the agent to drive the vehicle to the east coast. But he wrote in a weekend court filing that the “absurdity” of the decision became clear when attorneys visited an FBI evidence garage to inspect the vehicles that had been driven by Martinez and her co-defendant, Anthony Ian Santos Ruiz.

“Ironically, prior to being allowed into the FBI evidence garage counsel was lectured by the FBI evidence technician that nobody was to get closer than two feet of the vehicles and nobody was allowed to t

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