Three robbery defendants will get a new trial because statements one of the accused gave police were made while he was impaired by pills taken in a suicide attempt.

Curtis Taylor was “largely stupefied” when he implicated himself in the 2008 Christmas Eve robbery of a Manhattan pharmacy, so the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit vacated the convictions of Taylor and codefendants Antonio Rosario and Samuel Vasquez.

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