Legal Opinion
Sanchez v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided March 10, 1995No. 95-1349PublishedCited by 61 opinions
1Per curiam
Pedro Luis Sanchez appeals the district court’s1 dismissal of his action against federal agents as frivolous under 28 U.S.C. § 1915(d). We affirm.
On January 12,1995, Sanchez was granted in forma pauperis status to file his complaint against the United States, United States Attorney General Janet Reno, the directors of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), and five unknown FBI and DEA agents. Sanchez alleged that on February 10, 1989, his Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights were violated when federal agents took him into…
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