The State Supreme Court Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department, said in a written ruling that a videotaped confession should have been suppressed before the 2010 trial of a man convicted of attempted robbery.
He said Ebel had been sentenced to a halfway house for arobbery charge in 2003 before he was accused in two additional robbery cases the following year that garnered prison sentences of three and eight years.
The pair drew on their first meeting in 2004 before Pacquiao won a controversial points decision in 2008, a verdict which Marquez refers to as a'robbery'.
During the armed robbery in Lymington, a man in swimming goggles threatened a couple at their home before stealing their car and forcing the woman, in her 60s, to go with him.