UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

SUSAN MELLEN; JULIE CARROLL; No. 17-55116 JESSICA CURCIO; DONALD BESCH, Plaintiffs-Appellants, D.C. No. 2:15-cv-03006- v. GW-AJW MARCELLA WINN, Defendant-Appellee. OPINION

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California George H. Wu, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted May 18, 2018 Pasadena, California

Filed August 17, 2018 Before: Kim McLane Wardlaw, Jacqueline H. Nguyen, and John B. Owens, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Wardlaw 2 MELLEN V. WINN

SUMMARY *

Civil Rights / Qualified Immunity

The panel reversed the district court’s summary judgment in favor of Detective Marcella Winn on qualified immunity grounds in a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action.

Plaintiff Susan Mellen was wrongly imprisoned for seventeen years before securing habeas relief in October 2014, and she and her children brough