If the claim is rejected by the city, the couple represented by Kerr & Wagstaffe LLP, would be free to file a lawsuit.
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Haskins and her boyfriend on Thursday filed legal claims accusing Vallejo police of bungling the kidnapping report and showing hostility toward them.
Two days after the break-in, the kidnapper drove Huskins to her dad’s Huntington Beach home and released her without receiving any money.
Richardson said Muller was scheduled to be transferred to federal custody, but a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Northern California said he had no information Muller that had been formally charged in connection with the Vallejo kidnapping.
Matthew Muller – a disbarred Harvard University-trained attorney – collapsed and had to be revived in Alameda County court before entering the pleas, the Oakland Tribune reported. In July, Muller even admitted to kidnapping Huskins during an interview with a reporter which he thought wasn’t recorded, adding that he thought she deserved an apology.
The Vallejo Times-Herald said the Vallejo Police Department declined to comment on the claim because it’s a pending civil case.
Also named in the 22-page claim is Denise Huskins’ boyfriend Aaron Quinn.
Authorities in Vallejo afterwards apologized, but the claim said it included too many stipulations and came too late, for example, contention that policemen took proper investigative measures using the info accessible. “We understand that these contributed to the difficulty and personal ordeal that you have experienced”.
In an apology letter to Quinn and Huskins, police said their comments, though later proving to be “unnecessarily harsh and offensive”, were “based on our findings at the time”. He explained new evidence and following occasions made it clear there was a kidnapping.
When authorities identified him as a suspect in a home-invasion robbery in Dublin, Calif., the Federal Bureau of Investigation said they discovered evidence to suggest similarities to Huskins’ abduction. His attorney didn’t return an Associated Press phone call. Officials said that they had been sent on a “wild goose chase”. “Why? Because the individual or individuals who committed this offense were at liberty to continue on their crime spree and in fact (he) did”.
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Huskins and Quinn, both physical therapists who worked at Kaiser Permanente’s Vallejo Medical Center, told investigators at least two people invaded Quinn’s Mare Island residence while they were asleep early on the morning of March 23.
