Blum v. Crowe

(1) Whether a private psychologist whom police ask to consult on an interrogation of a suspect in a murder investigation is entitled to assert qualified immunity pursuant to Richardson v. McKnight; (2)whether the holding and standards of Richardson should be clarified or reexamined; (3) whether the tactics employed during plaintiffs' interrogations violated the Fourteenth Amendment "shocks the conscience" standard; and (4) whether the law was clearly established that the tactics employed during plaintiffs' interrogations were a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment.