{"id":25829,"date":"2017-02-14T13:37:12","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T18:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=25829"},"modified":"2017-02-15T13:49:12","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T18:49:12","slug":"wapo-the-fourth-amendment-at-the-border-and-beyond-a-few-thoughts-on-hernandez-v-mesa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=25829","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: The Fourth Amendment at the border and beyond: A few thoughts on Hernandez v. Mesa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/volokh-conspiracy\/wp\/2017\/02\/14\/the-fourth-amendment-at-the-border-and-beyond-a-few-thoughts-on-hernandez-v-mesa\/?utm_term=.f10108f2e24c\">The Fourth Amendment at the border and beyond: A few thoughts on Hernandez v. Mesa<\/a> by Orin Kerr:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Supreme Court will hear arguments next week in a Fourth Amendment case, Hernandez v. Mesa. The facts of the case are simple. At the border that separates El Paso, Tex., from Ciudad Ju\u00e1rez, Mexico, a U.S. border patrol agent named Mesa shot and killed a Mexican citizen named Hernandez. The bullet itself crossed the border, as Mesa was on U.S. land and Hernandez was on Mexican land. A subsequent lawsuit was filed by Hernandez\u2019s parents, as successors-in-interest to his estate, alleging excessive force under the Fourth Amendment.<\/p>\n<p>The cert petition articulated two questions to be decided:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Does a formalist or functionalist analysis govern the extraterritorial application of the Fourth Amendment\u2019s prohibition on unjustified deadly force, as applied to a cross-border shooting of an unarmed Mexican citizen in an enclosed area controlled by the United States?<\/p>\n<p>May qualified immunity be granted or denied based on facts\u2014such as the victim\u2019s legal status\u2014 unknown to the officer at the time of the incident?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: The Fourth Amendment at the border and beyond: A few thoughts on Hernandez v. Mesa by Orin Kerr:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scotus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25829"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25840,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25829\/revisions\/25840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}