Souza v. Pina

How courts have described this case

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• 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

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).