A defense attorney for the woman charged with killing an FBI agent in 2008 is asking that her client's statements to investigators and a family services worker be suppressed.

Christina Korbe is accused of killing FBI Special Agent Samuel Hicks on Nov. 19, 2008, as he was attempting to serve a federal arrest warrant on her husband with a team of officers.

Ms. Korbe claims that she believed her Indiana Township home was being broken into, and that she fired a single shot from upstairs to protect herself and her two children.

Caroline Roberto, who is representing Ms. Korbe in the federal murder case, claims that Ms. Korbe was never read her Miranda rights.

Further, she wrote in another filing, Ms. Korbe had already invoked her right to have a lawyer present when a caseworker with Children, Youth and Families questioned her on Nov. 25, 2008, while at the Allegheny County Jail.

Ms. Roberto, who also asked that recorded phone calls made by her client from the jail be kept out of trial, has asked U.S. District Judge Terrence F. McVerry for a hearing on the issues.

No trial date has yet been set in the case.

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