After a high school student sent an allegedly threatening e-mail to a friend on his home computer, he was arrested, held in jail for 32 days while interrogated and then expelled from school. The boy claims his First Amendment rights were violated. -DB
Courthouse News Service
October 29,2009
By Nick Divito
Before his arrest at school, “defendants interrogated Landon without contacting his parents,” the complaint states.
Landon was held in Douglas County Jail for 32 days based solely on the defendants’ allegations, according to the complaint.
During those 32 days, he says, school officials interrogated him “in an attempt to obtain incriminating statements.”
On March 6, 2008, almost a month after he was arrested, Wynar says he was suspended for 10 days without a hearing; his parents were notified by mail of his suspension.
Two weeks later, school officials expelled him for up to 90 days, though no evidence was submitted and no students testified, he says.
He is represented by Jeffrey Blanck.