Is there any case law where a police officer, or a private person, acted under color of law when releasing a civil rights activist from jail, knowing that they would be intercepted and murdered?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Mcdade v. West, 223 F.3d 1135 (9th Cir. 1999):
Id. at 111; see also United States v. Price, 383 U.S. 787, 79596 (1966) (law enforcement officials and private persons acted under color of law when they released three civil rights activists from jail, knowing that they would be intercepted and murdered).
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