STATE of Iowa, Appellant, v. Luis Fernando ORTIZ, Appellee, This case was filed in the
Supreme Court of Iowa and was decided in 2009. On July 15, 2006, a woman called the Sioux
City Police Department to report that Luis Ortiz, who she hired to do remodeling work in her house, “had forced her seven-year-old daughter to touch his penis”. After a brief meeting with
Ortiz Detective Bertrand asked ortiz is he was willing to go to the police station with him for an interview. Once both arrived to the police station Detective Bertrand and Salvador Sanchez, a
Sioux City officer, acting as translator, handed Ortiz a Voluntary Waiver of Rights