PARIS – Two defense motions filed on behalf of Christian Nielsen, who is accused of murdering four people last Labor Day weekend, will be heard July 2 by Justice Robert E. Crowley.

An order by Crowley was filed in Oxford County Superior Court on June 12 stating that Nielsen be transported to the Cumberland County Superior Court in Portland on July 2 for the hearing.

Nielsen, 32, is accused of shooting four people connected to the Black Bear Bed & Breakfast in Newry between Sept. 1 and Sept. 4 and mutilating their bodies.

Ron E. Hoffman and Margot Joly, attorneys for Nielsen, filed a motion last month to suppress as evidence all items seized and all statements Nielsen made to law enforcement officials Sept. 4, the day he was arrested at the Newry establishment where he had been living.

In a supplemental motion, the attorneys argue that Nielsen was not properly read his Miranda rights.

The more detailed supplemental motion came shortly after Andrew Benson, assistant attorney general and prosecutor in the case, filed a motion to dismiss the defense’s motion, arguing that it did not “articulate any specific legal basis in support of suppressing any evidence.”

Hoffman and Joly have also requested the medical and personnel records of Trooper Dan Hanson of the Maine State Police. Hanson was the first officer to respond to the crime scene.

The defense argues that Hanson was traumatized by the event and may not be able to accurately recall the details of his actions at the scene.

Benson has opposed this request, saying that Hanson’s records will not raise reasonable doubt about Nielsen’s guilt.

According to a police affidavit, Nielsen told his father and law enforcement authorities on Sept. 4 that he had shot and killed a man and three women. James Whitehurst, 50, of Batesville, Ark., a guest at the inn, was shot in Upton on Sept. 1; inn owner Julie Bullard, 65, was shot in her bed Sept. 3; her daughter Selby Bullard, 30, and Selby’s friend Cindy Beatson, 43, of Bethel, were shot Sept. 4 after arriving at the inn to check on Julie.

Nielsen, who had been working as a short-order cook at a Bethel business for about a month when he was arrested, described the killings in detail to Maine State Police Detective Jennifer King, she stated in a court affidavit dated Sept. 5, 2006.