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Constitutional impunity: how U.S. courts are breaking the promise of universal human rights, a comparative analysis

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AutorJeffrey Davis
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CONSTITUTIONAL IMPUNITY: HOW U.S.
COURTS ARE BREAKING THE PROMISE
OF UNIVERSAL HUMAN RIGHTS, A
COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS
CONSTITUTIONAL IMPUNITY: HOW U.S. COURTS ARE BREAKING THE...
J D
University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMBC)
1. INTRODUCTION - THE CASE OF SERGIO HERNANDEZ
In June 2010 fourteen-year-old Sergio Hernández was with his
friends in the dried river bed between El Paso, Texas and Juarez, Mexico.
The boys ran up one side of the culvert, touched the United States border
fence, and then ran back down. U.S. Border Patrol agent, Jesus Mesa,
grabbed one of the boys but Sergio and his other friends ran back down
and hid behind pillars supporting the international railroad bridge. When
Sergio looked out from behind the pillar, Mesa shot him in the face. He
died just inside Mexico with Mesa sixty feet away in the United States.
Because Sergio died in Mexico, the U.S. Department of Justice
claimed it did not have jurisdiction to prosecute Mesa – a false claim
as the U.S. often prosecutes suspects who commit crimes abroad. The
United States also refused to consider sending Agent Mesa for trial
in Mexico declining Mexican extradition requests. The Border Patrol
absolved Mesa of any wrongdoing in an internal investigation.
In this chapter I will explain how and why U.S. human rights
jurisprudence has deviated sharply from that of democratic nations in
Europe. Despite the important role of the U.S. in developing the idea of
human rights at its founding, and in forging the post-war human rights
regime, its racial segregation and American exceptionalism caused it
to marginalize human rights. I show how American federal courts have
systematically extinguished human rights from U.S. law in cases like
Hernández and contrast them with decisions from the European Court

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