Officers Not Entitled to Immunity After Man Acquitted of Murders

Sept. 12, 2025, 6:40 PM UTC

Two New Jersey police officers can’t avoid malicious prosecution claims alleging they fabricated evidence to charge a man with five murders, a federal appeals court said.

Detectives Lou Carrega and William Tietjen aren’t entitled to qualified immunity because “it is always unconstitutional for the police to coerce confessions and manufacture evidence to prosecute a criminal suspect,” the US Court ...

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