A DuPage County judge ruled Thursday that a videotaped police interview with a man accused of murdering a pizza delivery driver near West Chicago in 2006 can be used as evidence in the case against him.

Bradley Justice, 30, of Sandwich beat pizza delivery driver Karen Hassan to death Nov. 2, 2006, near Diamonds Gentlemen’s Club at North Avenue and Powis Road, authorities said. Justice has pleaded not guilty to the murder.

Justice’s attorneys sought to have the interview suppressed, but Circuit Judge Robert Anderson denied their motion. Anderson ruled June 12 that police acted properly when they arrested Justice at a motel in downstate Tuscola.

Justice ordered a pizza from someone else’s cell phone and asked that it be delivered to a lot across the street from the strip club. When the pizza arrived, Justice beat Hassan, a 41-year-old mother of four from St. Charles, with a hammer and hid her body underneath a truck, prosecutors said.