context: That defendant officers did not know the precise "use" to which Hobbs's confession would put at the time they solicited it is of little consequence. In May 2005, "a reasonable public official interrogating a criminal suspect would have recognized that coercing a confession by abusive language and physical contact, along with coaching the suspect as to the details of the confession, clearly violates the suspect's constitutional right against self-incrimination."
citation_a.signal: no signal
citation_a.identifier: 2009 WL 174994, at *8
citation_a.parenthetical: holding that police officers were not entitled to qualified immunity where they used threats and physical violence against the plaintiff in March 1992 to coerce a confession that was later used to convict him of murder
citation_a.sentence: Hill, 2009 WL 174994, at *8 (holding that police officers were not entitled to qualified immunity where they used threats and physical violence against the plaintiff in March 1992 to coerce a confession that was later used to convict him of murder); see also Alvarado v. Litscher, 267 F.3d 648, 651 (7th Cir. 2001) (“a complaint is generally not dismissed under Rule 12(b)(6) on qualified immunity grounds”).
citation_b.signal: see also
citation_b.identifier: 267 F.3d 648, 651
citation_b.parenthetical: "a complaint is generally not dismissed under Rule 12(b)(6) on qualified immunity grounds"
citation_b.sentence: Hill, 2009 WL 174994, at *8 (holding that police officers were not entitled to qualified immunity where they used threats and physical violence against the plaintiff in March 1992 to coerce a confession that was later used to convict him of murder); see also Alvarado v. Litscher, 267 F.3d 648, 651 (7th Cir. 2001) (“a complaint is generally not dismissed under Rule 12(b)(6) on qualified immunity grounds”).