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deprivation of rights under color of law
6.375 documents for deprivation of rights under color of law
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A U.S. Border Patrol agent has been sentenced to two years in prison for improperly lifting the arms of a 15-year-old drug smuggling suspect while handcuffed - in what the Justice Department called a deprivation of the teenager's constitutional right to be free from the use of unreasonable force. Agent Jesus E. Diaz Jr. was named in a November 2009 federal grand jury indictment with deprivation of rights under color of law during an October 2008 arrest near the Rio Grande in Eagle Pass, Texas, in response to a report that illegal immigrants had crossed the river with bundles of drugs.
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National frustration with the United States' immigration policy has been increasing rapidly over the past decade. Society often blames immigrants, legal and illegal, for local increases in drug use, crime, and job loss. Partly due to these factors, the presence of private, volunteer border-patrol groups has increased on the United States-Mexico border. The Minuteman Project is one of these citizen border-patrol groups. This Note presents a hypothetical situation in which a member of the Minuteman Project encounters an alien in the United States and violates her constitutional rights. This Note looks critically at the actions of volunteer border-patrol groups and concludes that, among other claims, the hypothetical undocumented migrant would have a valid Bivens cause of action against th...
... cause of action against Chris arising under the Fourth Amendment. Part II gives the background... for monetary compensation for the deprivation of his individual liberties was reasonable and wit...Representative from Colorado, in a speech telling his audience to "be vigilante...
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Two West Memphis police employees have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Little Rock. Scott McCall, a 39-year-old patrol officer, was indicted on one count of deprivation of rights under color of law.
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... other crimes, conspiracy to violate civil rights under color of law through the use of excessive fo... charged McQueen with two counts of deprivation of rights under color of law, in violation of 18U....
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BELLEVUE, Wash., May 26, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A New Jersey judge today announced he will issue a gun permit to one of the plaintiffs in a Second Amendment Foundation lawsuit against several New Jersey officials for deprivation of civil rights under color of law, because applicants cannot show a "justifiable need" for a permit. SAF Executive Vice President Alan Gottlieb said today this "clearly indicates that our lawsuit is proper, and we are encouraged to press our case to its conclusion.
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LOS ANGELES - Three correctional officers from the California Institution for Men were convicted Monday for and conspiring to cover it up. Robert McGowan of Apple Valley was found guilty of two counts of deprivation of rights under color of law and one count of conspiracy to obstruct justice.
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BELLEVUE, Wash., Nov. 22, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Second Amendment Foundation today filed suit in U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey against several New Jersey officials for deprivation of civil rights under color of law. SAF is joined in the lawsuit by the Association of New Jersey Rifle & Pistol Clubs, Inc. and six private citizens whose applications for permits to carry have been denied generally on the grounds that they have not shown a "justifiable need." One of the plaintiffs is a kidnap victim, another is a part-time sheriff's deputy, a third carries large amounts of cash in his private business and another is a civilian employee of the FBI in New Jersey who is fearful of attack from a radical Islamic fundamentalist group. Plaintiffs are represented by...
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LOS ANGELES - A former Bell police officer pleaded guilty yesterday to depriving a driver of her civil rights by sexually assaulting her during a 2007 traffic stop. Federal officials said today that Feliciano Sanchez, 34, of Pico Rivera pleaded to one count of deprivation of rights under color of law.
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WASHINGTON, April 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Justice Department announced today that U.S. District Judge Gray H. Miller sentenced Robert Luis Loya to three years in prison and five years of supervised release for violating the civil rights and the sexual abuse of females in his custody. Loya, a former guard at the Port Isabel Detention Center in Los Fresnos, Texas, pleaded guilty in September 2009, to a six-count criminal information charging him with three counts of abusive sexual contact and three counts deprivation of rights under color of law. In his guilty plea, Loya, 43, who lives in Rio Honda, Texas, admitted that on several occasions in March and April 2008, he snuck into medical isolation rooms at the detention center infirmary to grope female patients. He frequently volu...
