US Supreme Court sidesteps cross-border shooting dispute
Source: Reuters
Reuters
26 JUN 2017 AT 17:23 ET
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday threw out a lower court’s ruling that barred a lawsuit against a U.S. Border Patrol agent for fatally shooting a 15-year-old Mexican from across the border in Texas.
The justices, in an unsigned ruling, sent the case back to the lower court to reconsider whether the lawsuit brought by the parents of Sergio Hernandez can proceed against U.S. Border Patrol agent Jesus Mesa.
The high court did not decide whether the U.S. Constitution’s ban on unjustified deadly force applied to the slain teenager, a Mexican citizen on Mexican soil, when the shooting occurred in June 2010.
The Supreme Court heard arguments in the case on Feb. 21 when it still had a vacancy and was divided with four conservative justices and four liberals. President Donald Trump’s conservative appointee Neil Gorsuch joined the court in April and did not participate in the case.
Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/06/us-supreme-court-sidesteps-cross-border-shooting-dispute/
= new reply since forum marked as read
