Man Charged With Murdering His Son Sues Northbrook Police
Hyungseok Koh, who is charged with the 2009 murder of his son Paul, filed suit against eight Northbrook police officers and one Wheeling police officer, alleging they violated his constitutional rights.
A Northbrook man accused of killing his son filed a federal lawsuit Monday alleging that Northbrook police violated his constitutional rights during their arrest and subsequent interrogation of him. Hyungseok Koh, 58, has been imprisoned since police arrested him on April 16, 2009, when he is accused of killing his son, Paul Koh, then 22. Attorneys for the state allege that Koh stabbed Paul to death in the doorway of the family’s Northbrook home. Prosecutors cite his videotaped confessions to the Northbrook Police Department as evidence, among other things. But Koh’s lawyers say that police never should have arrested him in the first place. The suit filed in federal court Monday charges one Wheeling police officer and eight Northbrook …
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Joanna Schneider
8:20 pm on Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Great reporting, Jenny! I'll be interested to read your follow-up after Koh's next appearance on the 27th. more ›