Estate of Ian Simmers v. County of King

NOT FOR PUBLICATION FILED

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS OCT 16 2025

MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK

U.S. COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

ESTATE OF IAN SIMMERS, by and No. 24-3636 through administrator Donna Berube, D.C. No. 2:21-cv-00100-BJR Plaintiff - Appellant,

v. MEMORANDUM*

COUNTY OF KING; CITY OF

BOTHELL; EDWARD J. HOPKINS,

Detective; REBECCA MINER, Detective; JOHN MCSWAIN, Detective; PAT RAFTIS, Detective; KENT BAXTER, Detective; MARK ERICKS, Chief; DAVID SCHLAEGEL, Detective Sergeant,

Defendants - Appellees.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington Barbara Jacobs Rothstein, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted June 10, 2025 San Francisco, California

Before: S.R. THOMAS and M. SMITH, Circuit Judges, and RAYES, District

* This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3. Judge.**

After confessing to the crime, Ian Simmers was convicted in 1996 in the

Superior Court of Washington for King County for first-degree murder…