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Leland Hust, the man accused of killing 6 year-old Ariana Jade Romeo, is seen at the Valencia County District Court on Wednesday, the first day of his trial for the 2018 killing in Rio Rancho. (Adolphe Pierre-Louis/Albuquerque Journal)
LOS LUNAS Detectives botched the investigation of the rape and strangulation death of a 6-year-old girl and later coerced an incriminating statement from the man charged with the killing, his attorney told jurors Wednesday.
Leland Hust, now 24, is charged with intentional child abuse resulting in death and rape of a child younger than 13, both first-degree felonies, in the August 2018 death of Ariana “Jade” Romeo.