Terence Tekoh v. County of Los Angeles

NOT FOR PUBLICATION FILED

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS MAY 11 2023

MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK

U.S. COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

TERENCE B. TEKOH, No. 18-56414

Plaintiff-Appellant, D.C. No. 2:16-cv-07297-GW-SK v.

COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES; DENNIS MEMORANDUM*

STANGELAND, Sergeant; CARLOS VEGA, Deputy,

Defendants-Appellees,

and

LOS ANGELES COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT; DOES, 1 to 10,

Defendants.

On Remand from the United States Supreme Court

Before: MURGUIA, Chief Judge, and WARDLAW and MILLER, Circuit Judges. Dissent by Judge MILLER.

Following a federal trial, Terence Tekoh appealed the district court’s

decisions to (1) instruct the jury that a § 1983 claim could not be grounded in a

Miranda violation alone, and (2) exclude the testimony of Tekoh’s coerced

* This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3. confessions expert, Dr. Iris Blandón-Gitlin. We ruled in favor of Tekoh on the

Miranda issue, but the Supreme Court reversed that decision. See Vega v. Tekoh,

142 S. Ct.…