He claims the law enforcement officers with the Coquille Police Dept., Coos County Sheriff’s Office and the Oregon State Police violated his constitutional rights when he was arrested for the murder of his 15-year old girlfriend, Leah Freeman, back in June of 2000. Nicholas McGuffin, who was 18 that summer in the Coquille Valley, is now 38 and released from his prison sentence last December after a judge ruled that police failed to disclose that it had found another male’s DNA on Freeman’s shoes. That disclosure could have led the jury to acquit McGuffin according to his Federal Civil Rights Lawsuit filed Monday, July 20. A Coos County jury found him guilty of Manslaughter in 2011.
