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By BEN LEUBSDORF Associated Press Writer PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) A defense attorney says a "jumbled" police interview elicited an apparent confession from a Michigan teenager accused of helping beat a homeless man to death.

Lawyer Marsha Kosmatka on Tuesday attacked the validity of what prosecutors describe as a confession by then-14-year-old Dontez Tillman during an interview with a Pontiac police detective.

Tillman, now 15, is charged with felony murder in the death of 61-year-old Wilford Hamilton, who died after he was beaten in August 2008 in Pontiac.

Thomas McCloud, also 15, is charged in the deaths of Hamilton and another homeless man, 61-year-old Lee Hoffman.

The teens are charged as adults and face life in prison if convicted.

Two juries, one for each defendant, will decide the case.

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