State ex rel. Dussell v. Lakewood Police Department

{¶ 1} In 1989, appellant, Dennis Dussell, was acquitted of sexually assaulting a three-year-old girl. On October 6, 1990, appellee, Lakewood Police Department, began a criminal investigation after receiving a report that a woman had been kidnapped and repeatedly raped. On October 7, Lakewood officers showed the victim a book of mug shots, and she identified Dussell as her assailant. Dussell was subsequently implicated in another rape and an attempted rape.

{¶ 2} On October 25, 1990, a Cuyahoga County grand jury indicted Dussell on 24 counts of rape, felonious assault, kidnapping, abduction,…