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To: archy

Please indicate the last time this statute has been used, or indicate the thugs who have been even charged under this statute, in the last, say, twenty years...


54 posted on 05/19/2010 4:10:52 PM PDT by jonascord (We've got the Constitution to protect us. Why should we worry?)
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To: jonascord
Please indicate the last time this statute has been used, or indicate the thugs who have been even charged under this statute, in the last, say, twenty years...

I believe the two Border Patrol officers who shot the Mexican drug runner in the behind were so charged, and though he did not die, got something like 10 years each, thankfully commuted.

At least one such case has recently been concluded, about a year ago, with a prison term, in Gary, Indiana. DOJ Press Release *here*

I couldn't begin to tell you how many there've been nationwide; hundreds, at least. Here's some info on a few of them. And here's some more info on one patrticularly notorious example, in which I believe at least one guilty plea has been accepted in order to avoid the possible imposition of the maximum possible penalty.

I can better track them down by federal court district, if there's one in particular in which you're interested. And of course, Section 1983 civil penalties may also be applied as well or instead, as in this Los Angeles case

86 posted on 05/19/2010 5:44:22 PM PDT by archy (q)
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