Gonzalez

FACTS

We state the facts presented by the government’s witnesses:

According to Cecilia Tirado, the owner of a beauty shop, she was driving home alone on the Imperial Highway after having been dancing at Alpine Village. The date was a Sun- day in July or August 2002. The time was early morning. She UNITED STATES v. GONZALEZ 8931 was pulled over by someone in a patrol car dressed as a policeman and carrying a gun.

The officer performed sobriety tests on her, then ordered her into the patrol car. He drove her by her home in the City of Southgate but passed the house without letting her out. While driving, he asked her whether she had a husband or boyfriend. After a long drive, the officer drove into a desolate parking lot, commanded her to undress and penetrated her vagina. He then drove her back to her car and left her.

According to Pamela Fields, a prostitute, she was walking in the center of Long Beach Boulevard late at night on Janu- ary 8, 2003 when a black and white police car, marked “Sher- iff,” stopped her, and the officer asked her for identification, then asked her to get into the car. He drove around and stopped in a nearby alley, examined her genital…