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Updated: 4:14 p.m. Monday, March 31, 2008 | Posted: 3:30 p.m. Monday, March 31, 2008

Pretrial Hearings Begin In Jewish Center Shooting



SEATTLE —

Lawyers representing a man accused of opening fire at the Jewish Federation offices in downtown Seattle in 2006 are disputing the way their client was questioned, reported KIRO 7 Eyewitness News.

In pretrial hearings on Monday, lawyers argued whether a videotaped police interview with accused killer Naveed Haq can be played in front of the jury when his trial starts next month.

Haq is accused of a shooting spree in which one woman was killed and five people were injured.

In the police video, Haq told police he has bipolar disorder, that he's usually not a bad guy and that he stopped shooting "so quickly" because it appeared all the people there (at the offices) that day were women.

Haq's lawyers argue that the interrogation should have ended when Haq asked for an attorney.

Police said they continued to question Haq because they didn't know if he was a terrorist who had accomplices.

Lawyers are also arguing over the computers, gun receipts and ammunition that police confiscated from Haq's apartment and his parents' house after he gave them the addresses.

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