Before the trial, the judge cited marital privilege and other laws and ruled the prosecution couldn't ask Ms. Mangan-Valle if she thought Mr. Valle really planned to carry out the plot to kidnap and murder her.

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But Milke offered a vastly different view of the interrogation and denied that she had confessed to any role in a murder plot.

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