Vol. 41 No. 7 OFFICERS THAT INDUCED FALSE TESTIMONY FROM WITNESS THROUGH ABUSIVE INTERROGATION TACTICS WERE NOT ENTITLED TO QUALIFIED IMMUNITY FROM SUIT ALLEGING THEY HAD VIOLATED THE CONSTITUTION BY FABRICATING EVIDENCE TO SECURE CONVICTION
In Ciria v. Gerrans,[1] the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the denial of qualified immunity to officers who threatened an 18-year-old into adopting a story naming a plaintiff as the shooter in a murder where there was minimal objective evidence that the plaintiff was the shooter. Background In March 1990, Felix Bastarrica was shot […]