An attorney for Daniel Porter, 25, says statements Porter made to police in Connecticut last February should be inadmissible because Porter wasn't read his Miranda rights.

BELFAST, Maine (AP) _ The attorney for a Maine man charged with fatally shooting a Florida firefighter over a drug debt wants a judge to throw out statements his client allegedly made to police.

Jeffrey Silverstein told a Waldo County Superior Court judge Tuesday that statements 25-year-old Daniel Porter made to police in Connecticut last February should be inadmissible because Porter wasn't read his Miranda rights. A few days later, Porter was charged in Maine in the death of 31-year-old Jerry Perdomo, of Orange City, Fla.

WLBZ-TV reported that prosecutors told the judge said that when Connecticut police questioned Porter in a hotel room, they didn't read him his rights because he wasn't under arrest and was free to leave at any time.

Porter has pleaded not guilty to murder.