United States Ninth Circuit

Where the jury believed evidence that defendant officer had used improper means in obtaining the confession of the mentally challenged plaintiff, and that the plaintiff had been denied advice that he could have a lawyer if requested, the judgment granting plaintiff punitive damages in his action under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 was affirmed.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/14/2002
• Decided 03/20/2002
• Published 03/20/2002

Judges

• GOODWIN, Circuit Judge., Before SCHROEDER, Chief Judge, GOODWIN, Circuit Judge, and UNPINGCO, District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• L. David Sosebee,Stacey D. Connor, Office of the Attorney General, Saipan, MP, for the defendant-appellant., Steven P. Pixley, Saipan, MP, for the plaintiff-appellee.