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First Circuit· 4/28/1995

Souza v. Pina

Citations

  • 53 F.3d 423
  • 1995 U.S. App. LEXIS 9739
  • 1995 WL 238785

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • refusing to apply the protection to verbal harassment despite the prosecutor’s statements to the media encouraging the linking of the plaintiffs son and nine murders
  • “There is a constitutional right not to be deprived of life without due process of law. Thus, a state actor cannot murder a citizen.”
  • “[T]he Due Process Clause does not require the state to protect citizens from ‘private violence’ in whatever form, including suicide.”
  • “[T]he Due Process Clause does not require the state 14 Cohen names Giroux in both his individual and official capacities. Sixth Am. Compl. (ECF No. 69
  • no substantive due process violation when a murder suspect committed suicide after prosecutors caused or encouraged the media to link him to a series of murders
  • murder suspect not in state custody did not have \special relationship\ with state defendants

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Judges: Torruella, Bownes, Stahl

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Cites

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