Minch v. District of Columbia

How courts have described this case

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• observing that, in the context of absolute official immunity, “the burden of establishing that the official function in question merits absolute immunity rests on the defendant official” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• noting police suspicion was reasonably based on appellant’s evasiveness and equivocation, particularly in a fast-moving investigation
• noting the pressure on police officers who publicly and prematurely identified a student as suspect in one murder as they confronted murder of a second student at undergraduate campus
• noting the pressure on police officers who publicly and prematurely identified a student as suspect in one murder as they confronted murder of a second student at undergraduate campus
• affirming grant of summary judgment on IIED claim because police officer's threat that innocent murder suspect would be put in jail for life if he did not confess was not extreme and outrageous

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