Associated Press - September 7, 2009 4:55 PM ET

TACOMA, Wash. (AP) - The NAACP office in Seattle has called a news conference Wednesday in Tacoma where it says it will ask the Justice Department to review the case of a former school principal to see if his civil rights are being violated.

The NAACP says a flawed police investigation led to the prosecution of Harold Wright Jr.

Wright was principal of Baker Middle School in Tacoma when he and another man were charged with assaulting a 19-year-old woman he knew from being an assistant principal and Spanaway Lake High School.

The men were convicted in 2007 of third-degree rape, and an appeals court last week overturned the conviction. Pierce County prosecutors plan to appeal to the state Supreme Court.

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