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The lawyers representing alleged Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann<\/a> received a stern warning from the New York judge presiding over the case.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Judge Tim Mazzei expressed his frustration with Heuermann\u2019s legal team in a hearing on Tuesday, after the case has dragged through the Long Island courts for over two years, according to the New York Post<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“This trial will begin after Labor Day, come hell or high water,” he said, the Post reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The scolding came after Heuermann\u2019s lawyer, Michael Brown, introduced a new stack of motions further challenging evidence in the infamous murder case on Monday evening, the Post reported.<\/p>\n

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The new defense filings reportedly challenge roughly 20 search warrants carried out by authorities throughout the investigation, with Heuermann\u2019s attorneys asking to suppress some of the DNA evidence<\/a> \u2013 including a discarded pizza crust and energy drink thrown in the trash \u2013 while citing constitutional grounds.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“If our government can go into our garbage can and take our DNA and learn everything about us, what\u2019s the purpose of having a Fourth Amendment anymore?” Brown told reporters, according to the Post.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In a September ruling<\/a>, the judge determined the prosecution could use the DNA evidence in the case.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Brown went on to insist his team was not stalling while working on the case, according to the Post.<\/p>\n

“We\u2019ve been working hard on this case,” he said. “We will be prepared to try the case come Labor Day.”<\/p>\n

On Tuesday,\u00a0Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney continued to assert that his office would not consider a plea deal for Heuermann, while adding that his team is prepared to go to trial, the Post reported.<\/p>\n

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“The judge was very explicit, and we are ready,” Tierney said.<\/p>\n

However, Tierney reportedly added that he does not believe Brown is intentionally trying to delay the proceedings, insisting that the flurry of new court motions are “the nature of the business.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Prosecutors allege Heuermann, 62, was behind the brutal killings of seven sex workers<\/a> between 1993 and 2010, whose bodies were found throughout remote areas around Long Island.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Valerie Mack, 24, Megan Waterman, 22, Jessica Taylor, 20, Maureen Brainard-Barnes, 25, Amber Lynn Costello, 27, Sandra Costilla, 28, and Melissa Barthelemy, 24, have all been named as victims in the murders, with Tierney alleging Heuermann is responsible for their deaths.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The cases remained unsolved for decades as the sleepy Long Island community reeled over the possibility of a serial killer lurking in their midst. Heuermann was later arrested outside his Manhattan architecture office in July 2023.<\/p>\n

Heuermann’s defense team did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Prosecutors initially charged Heuermann with three of the murders, with DNA evidence later allegedly linking him to four additional bodies.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Heuermann has pleaded not guilty to the murders and faces a single trial for the seven alleged killings.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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