Henry H. Cunningham v. City of Wenatchee, and Robert R. Perez

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that a detective’s failure to gather potentially exculpatory 10 UNITED STATES V. ROBERTSON evidence did not show bad faith where the value of the evidence was “speculative”
• explaining that “[i]nterlocutory appeals are not available when the appellate court is required to resolve a fact-related dispute” (citation and internal quotation marks omitted) (emphasis in the original
• emphasizing “while [defendant’s] investigative work may have been negligent or incomplete, it was not conducted in bad faith”
• discussing claim that officers used coercive tactics when interviewing suspect’s daughters
• relying on Devereaux, rejecting a claimed constitutional violation premised on “mere allegations that [an official] used improper interview techniques” when interviewing a child, including continuing the question- ing after an initial denial of abuse.
• “Perez’s questions may have unsettled Cunningham, but mere emotionalism and confusion do not invalidate confessions.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).