By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
Can a Border Patrol agent be sued for shooting and killing a Mexican teenager?
The Supreme Court decided Tuesday it will take up the case of a Border Patrol agent who shot and killed a Mexican teenager who was playing with friends, the Los Angeles Times reports.
The victim of the 2010 shooting was an unarmed 15-year-old named Sergio Hernandez.
The central question: Does the 4th Amendment extend beyond the U.S. border patrolled by Border Patrol agents?
Lawyers for the parents of the teenager argue that the 4th Amendment’s ban on unreasonable seizures and the unjustified use of deadly force extends beyond the border where agents patrol.
Hernandez “was killed in a culvert the U.S. officials patrol and effectively control,” the lawyers wrote in their appeal to the high court.
