 They awarded $3 million to a couple who had been wrongly accused in the inquiry, but the state supreme court later upheld an appeals court ruling reducing this award to the Sims.Robert Perez was rotated into sex-crimes investigation in 1994 despite having been arrested, involvement in a child custody dispute, and a 1989 performance evaluation that said he "likes confrontation and likes having power over people".But the Seattle Post-Intelligencer argued that while Perez got a lot of the criticism, "he was just the point man for an investigation either directed by or undertaken with the active involvement of CPS officials", and the Wall Street Journal blamed "the entire law enforcement establishment [including] the prosecutors".