AP NewsBreak: Interrogations OK in Ohio bodies case

CLEVELAND (AP) — An Ohio judge has ruled that prosecutors can present in court the recorded police interrogations of a Cleveland man charged with killing 11 women and dumping their remains around his home.

The ruling today by Judge Dick Ambrose of Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court denies a defense motion by 50-year-old Anthony Sowell that sought to keep statements he made to police out of court.

Sowell's lawyers had claimed that he was incapable of voluntarily waiving his Miranda rights upon his arrest due to "his mental state."

Judge Ambrose writes in the ruling that the defense has not shown that Sowell was suffering from a psychosis when he waived his rights or that he was unable to make "free and rational choices."

Sowell has pleaded not guilty to charges including aggravated murder.