Defense in Levy trial attacks prosecution's key witness

The defense in the Chandra Levy murder trial went on the attack Monday, cutting into the credibility of the only witness who could directly link Ingmar Guandique to the killing.

Defense attorneys rested their case just six hours after they had begun. The two witnesses they called to the stand were designed to raise reasonable doubt surrounding the testimony of prosecutors’ key witness, a jailhouse snitch who claimed Guandique had confessed while they were housed together in a federal prison in 2006 that he had killed Levy. The federal intern went missing on May 1, 2001, while she was jogging in Rock Creek Park. Her bones were found there a year later.