“Horiuchi successfully petitioned to remove the case to federal court,[4] where the case was dismissed by U.S. District Judge Edward Lodge on May 14, 1998, who cited the supremacy clause of the Constitution which grants immunity to federal officers acting in the scope of their employment.[1]”
From wikipedia- I wonder why this wasn’t applicable to the border patrolmen that were given 10 and 12 years in the pen for wounding a drug dealer?