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Cause Affidavit: Uber Driver and State Trooper

cause affidavit: His attorneys had argued in a motion filed Feb. 20 that Orrego-Savala's admission shouldn't be allowed because he wasn't first read his rights, according to Metro News. Orrego-Savala, 37, faces four felony charges in the crash that killed Jackson, 26, and his Uber driver, Jeffrey Monroe, 54, as the two men stood outside Monroe's car along Interstate 70 in Indianapolis. Attorney John Tompkins told Marion County Judge Grant Hawkins during a Tuesday pre-trial hearing for Manuel Orrego-Savala that he had withdrawn a motion to suppress his client's statements to a state trooper after the Feb. 4 crash in said in a probable cause affidavit that Orrego-Savala admitted to the trooper that he was driving the pickup truck involved in the crash. Investigators said Monroe was transporting Jackson for the ride-sharing service, and had pulled over after the football player became ill. He remains jailed and a not guilty plea has been entered on his behalf. Orrego-Savala had a blood-alcohol level of 0.19 per cent which is more than twice Indiana's legal limit of .08 per cent according to court documents. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.