ZAMARRIPA v. CITY OF MESA

No. 96-15934.

125 F.3d 792 (1997)

Yndalesio ZAMARRIPA, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CITY OF MESA, a municipal corporation; Mesa City Police Department, an entity of the City of Mesa; Alden Gates, Detective, individually and in his official capacity as Mesa Police Department officer; Bill Cox, individually and in his official capacity as a civilian employee of the City of Mesa; Merle Cascaden, individually and in his official capacity as a civilian employee of the City of Mesa, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided September 11, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nicholas S. Hentoff, Hentoff Law Offices, Phoenix, Arizona, for plaintiff-appellant.

David C. Lewis, Jones, Skelton & Hochuli, Phoenix, Arizona, for defendants-appellees.

Before: D.W. NELSON, BOOCHEVER, and TROTT, Circuit Judges.


BOOCHEVER, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiff Yndalesio Zamarripa (Zamarripa) appeals the district court's judgment that a state trial court's ruling in a criminal case on the voluntary nature of Zamarripa's confession precluded further litigation in a civil suit regarding the voluntariness of that confession. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We review this question of law de novo, In re Russell,

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