AELE LAW LIBRARY OF CASE SUMMARIES:
Civil Liability
of Law Enforcement Agencies & Personnel


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Crime Victims Rights

           Failure to inform mother of murder victim that charges against alleged offender might be reduced did not violate constitutional due process Pusey v. City of Youngstown, 11 F.3d 652 (6th Cir. 1993).
     Minnesota Crime Victims Reparations Act does not create liability for negligence by officers in failing to inform victims of crime of their potential right to receive compensation under the Act Bruegger v. Faribault County County Sheriff's Dept, 497 N.W.2d 260 (Minn. 1993).
     Sheriff's department was not liable to parents of four-yearold child allegedly abused by his babysitter for failure to notify them of their rights to claim benefits under Minnesota's Crime Victim Reparations Act. Bruegger v. Faribault Cty Sheriff's Dept, 486 N.W.2d 463 (Minn. App. 1992).
     California "Victims' Bill of Rights" did not give crime victims constitutionally protected liberty or property interests under the 14th Amendment's due process clause; man shot in the head by prison escapee with nine prior felony convictions could not file federal civil rights suit over lack of notice of assailant's sentencing hearing or his sentencing without consideration of a required victim's statement Dix v. County of Shasta, 963 F.2d 1296 (9th Cir. 1992).


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