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