Criminal,
Constitutional Law
May 4, 2021
Take qualified immunity out of the equation
It is time to take “qualified immunity” out of the police and government accountability equation. It is a judicial construct that keeps getting in the way of making progress through the rule of law.
Sanford Jay Rosen
Partner
Rosen, Bien, Galvan & Grunfeld LLP
101 Mission Street, 6th Floor
San Francisco , CA 94105
Phone: (415) 433-6830
Fax: (415) 433-7104
Email: srosen@rbgg.com
Yale Law School; New Haven CT
On May 4, 1970, four white, middle-class Kent State University students were shot dead by the Ohio National Guard on their campus commons. Nine others were wounded. Shortly after, I was in Ohio investigating what had happened for the ACLU, and how it should respond. I recommended filing numerous law suits and defending some bogus criminal prosecutions.
One of the cases the ACLU brought was for damages under the 1871 Civil Rights Act,...
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