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Civil Lawsuit Likely in Hot-to-Trot Teach Case Though She was Found Innocent of KMart Truck Tryst

YAKIMA, Wash. — The Yakima teacher acquitted of sexual misconduct charges and the school district could still face a civil lawsuit.

The lawyer for two boys who say Michele Taylor made sexual advances, Blaine Tamaki, told the Yakima Herald-Republic he’s planning to sue.

The school district has already denied a claim from one teen who said he suffered emotional trauma and embarrassment after being seduced by Taylor.

Jurors found the 31-year-old East Valley High School physical education teacher not guilty Tuesday of charges of sexual misconduct and communicating with a minor for immoral purposes.

Earlier story: YAKIMA, Wash. from www.yakima-herald.com – — Michele Taylor cried and hugged her husband after jurors found her innocent of having sex with a 16-year-old student.

“It’s such a huge relief to have this over,” Taylor said Tuesday afternoon as she held hands with Kevin Taylor, a fellow teacher, outside Yakima County Superior Court.

In brief comments to reporters outside the courtroom, Taylor said the last year had seemed like the longest of her life. “You feel like you can’t breathe,” she said about waiting for the verdict.

After listening to almost two weeks of testimony, jurors took less than two hours to find Taylor innocent of one count of sexual misconduct and two counts of communicating with a minor for immoral purposes.

Her husband said the verdict represented the “answer to prayer that God will reveal the truth.”

Taylor, who has taught physical education at East Valley High School since 2004, said she now awaits a September hearing to contest her proposed termination.

“I can’t wait to get back to my teaching,” she said.

A year ago this week, a sheriff’s detective seized her cell phone in hopes of recovering evidence. The investigation was barely a week old at the time, and Taylor had been placed on leave as soon as school officials learned of the allegations.

The 31-year-old Taylor was accused of having sex with a 16-year-old in her husband’s truck in the back lot of the Yakima Kmart. Phone records show she sent more than 400 text messages to him and another boy, who was 15 at the time.

The parents of the older boy quickly left the courtroom after the verdict.

Jurors — five men, seven women — did not want to comment. One stopped long enough to affirm the verdict — “I think it was the right one,” she said — but none of her colleagues wanted to discuss the case.

“No comment,” the foreman said.

The jury included at least two local school employees and one woman whose sister was an East Valley student, according to the descriptions they gave the attorneys during the selection process. Among the rest of the panel were a government staffer, a retiree, a homemaker, a food company salesman, a social services program manager, a state liquor clerk, an administrative assistant and workers for a hardware store and sandwich shop.

Judge Michael McCarthy had earlier indicated that the verdict would not be quick if the jury chose to review individual phone records. But reading of the verdict had to be delayed to give defense attorney Ulvar Klein time to return to the courthouse, a sign that the decision came more quickly than expected.

“I think the jury got it right,” Klein said after the verdict. He added that he believed the older teen “got caught up in something very ugly not of his own making.”

Klein had referred during his closing argument to his theory that the younger boy reported the allegation against Taylor out of jealousy. Taylor testified that he told her during their last phone call that he could ruin her career and that he was upset because she had told her husband about their personal conversations.

According to the defense theory, once the older boy described to authorities a sexual encounter with Taylor, he felt stuck and couldn’t back out of his story.

Deputy prosecutor Sam Chen said he respected the jury’s work even though he disagreed with the decision.

“These are two kids who don’t even know each other,” he said after the verdict. “There’s no way they could have concocted something like this.”

After being placed on leave, Taylor quickly retained an attorney and never spoke to investigators. She also deleted the boys’ contact information from her phone, saying she no longer needed them.

Chen said the case was complicated by the students’ difficulty in recalling dates, suggesting some witnesses were incorrect in saying they heard rumors about Taylor and the older teen as early as fall 2008.

During closing arguments, he raised the prospect that the Taylor family “circled the wagons” to protect the couple from monetary damages in a possible civil lawsuit. For example, multiple witnesses described the suggestive photo the younger boy received from Taylor’s phone as “silly” or “goofy.”

“It just seemed kind of pat that their stories were using the same words to describe things from a year ago,” Chen said afterward.

Both sides used phone records to bolster their case, but jurors never saw any texts between Taylor and the boys. They were apparently deleted or overwritten.

If jurors agreed that the photo was sexually suggestive — it showed Taylor’s friend sticking out her tongue near Taylor’s chest — that might have been the clearest evidence of immoral communication. But phone records and testimony were used to support the defense position that Taylor’s mother accidentally sent the image to Taylor’s stepfather.

If convicted, Taylor likely would have spent time in prison and been required to register as a sex offender.

The separate termination hearing by the school district is expected to focus on whether her repeated contact with the boys was appropriate under school policy, regardless of the criminal verdict.

Key topics are expected to include her texting exchanges with the student and whether she stepped over the line to something more than the standard student-teacher relationship.

“The school district does not have to prove a crime. What we have to prove is she’s engaged in some unprofessional conduct,” school district attorney Michael Patterson said.

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