The issue focused primarily on whether the agents should have told the suspect, who was injured in the April 3 incident and later charged with killing a police officer, about his right to have a weapon and how they might have used force that would be constitutional.


Besides the question of whether the agents breached the suspect's constitutional rights, a court took issue with the way the information was obtained by police and the manner in which it was conveyed to the suspect. The agents refused to tell the suspect about the fact that