(Reuters) - A U.S. border patrol agent acquitted of murder for shooting a Mexican teenager to death across the Arizona-Mexico border is not immune from civil damages claims by the boy's mother, a federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday.
The dissenting judge from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' 2-1 decision accused the majority of ignoring legal precedent and said the Supreme Court may need to weigh in.
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