Legal Opinion
Stoot v. City of Everett
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided September 18, 2009No. 15-16816PublishedCited by 93 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
AMENDED OPINION
BERZON, Circuit Judge:
Based solely on statements by a four-year-old that she had been sexually abused when she was three, Everett Police Detective Jon Jensen seized and interrogated plaintiff Paul Stoot II for almost two hours in the principal’s office at Paul’s school. Near the end of the interrogation, Paul stated that he had molested the victim three times. The confession was then used to file criminal charges against Paul in juvenile court.
A state court subsequently dismissed the charges, holding that the confession had been coerced and that the four-year-old victim was…
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