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Washington — Thursday The US Supreme Court has refused to revive civil rights proceedings against prison officials and police. The proceedings provided protection called "limited immunity" after these employees were accused of illegal activity.
In one case, a family member of a prisoner who died in 2017 after strangling in a cell with a phone code while a security guard working in a prison in a small town in Coleman County was waiting. A lawsuit has been filed. The other was involved in a lawsuit by a family member of a man who died in flames after shooting him with a stun gun after police in the city of Arlington drank gasoline.
The lower court blocked the proceedings by giving police and prison staff limited immunity. This legal defense protects police and other government officials from civil proceedings in certain circumstances and allows proceedings only if an individual's "clearly established" statutory or constitutional rights are violated. increase. The proceedings accused police and prison officials of violating the rights of individuals protected by the US Constitution.
Judges are limited from proceedings accusing Jesse Loews, a prison guard in Coleman County, of violating the constitutional rights of prisoner Derek Monroe, who was arrested for two days. He upheld a lower court ruling that found him protected under immunity. Before the suspicious drug crime.
The lower court also immunized sheriffs Leslie Cogdir and Mary Joe Brixie, who oversee the prison guards.
Liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor opposes the Supreme Court proceedings in Monroe's case, killing two other Liberal judges, Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan, Gabriel Eduard Olivus in Arlington. Opposed in other cases, including. .. Breyer officially retired from court on Thursday.
Law enforcement experts and some U.S. conservatives argue that limited immunity is essential for police to make swift decisions in dangerous situations without fear of proceedings. increase. Critics of the principles of law say it has been used to protect against accountables who are clearly engaged in illegal activities.
Reuters in 2020 reveals that with continued improvements in the Supreme Court, limited immunity facilitated the killing or injury of civilians by police immunity. Announced the survey. (Clickhttps://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-police-immunity-scotus/)
to see Reuters' investigation. In the proceedings filed by Monroe's mother and others, prison officials protect pretrial detainees, Constitution No. 14. He accused him of violating Monroe's rights under legal proceedings under the amendment.-People not convicted of crimes-from harm or punishment. By entering, he said he acted "intentionally indifferent" to Monroe.
The New Orleans-based 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals was a prison official. The circuit acted unfairly by neglecting to call emergency medical services, but previous cases did not clearly establish such requirements and the backup was Monroe. He had not established that his decision to wait to enter his cell was illegal.
Circuit 5 and gr Arlington police officers Jeremiah Guadarama and Ebony Jefferson said. He used a stun gun on Olivus soaked in gasoline to burn him. According to legal documents, Olivus also committed himself and threatened to burn his family's home.
Olivus's family The proceedings accused police of using excessive force in violation of the prohibition of unjustified search and seizure in Article 4 of the Constitutional Amendment, claiming that they knew their actions would cause him to fire. 48}
"Sotomayor writes," It is clearly unreasonable to use a deadly force that deliberately poses an exact danger to prevent it. "
(Report by Andrew Chung; edited by Will Dunham)
