COLLEEN LONG
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court's left-leaning justices on Tuesday appeared willing to allow a lawsuit filed by the parents of a Mexican teenager shot over the border by an American agent, but the case will depend on whether they can persuade a conservative colleague to join them.
The high court heard arguments in a 2010 case where Border Patrol Agent Jesus Mesa Jr. fired into Mexico, striking and killing Sergio Adrian Hernandez Guereca. The case centered on whether the family could sue the agent in an American court for violating their son's rights.
The unarmed 15-year-old was playing a game with friends on a June evening, running through a culvert and over the border, touching it, and running back.
Mesa rode up on a bicycle, took Sergio's friend
