DETROIT (AP) — A jury has failed to reach a unanimous verdict in the civil trial of two U.S. border officers who were accused of an illegal body search on a Canadian woman.
U.S. District Court Judge Bernard Friedman declared a mistrial last week after jurors said no one was changing their mind.
Leslie Ingratta of Windsor, Ontario, sued two female officers who work for U.S. Customs and Border Protection at the Detroit-Windsor tunnel.
Ingratta says her bare breasts were fondled and her groin rubbed outside her clothing by an officer while the other watched in 2011.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Derri Thomas says the officers wouldn’t risk their careers. Ingratta’s attorney, David Nacht, says he’s pleased the jury took the matter “so seriously.”
- Posted June 08, 2015
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Jury can't reach verdict in trial over body search at border
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