Posted on 10/19/2006 3:37:27 PM PDT by no dems
Edited on 10/19/2006 4:07:46 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Ex-border agents sentenced for shooting smuggler
AP
EL PASO, Texas -- Two former U.S. Border Patrol agents were each sentenced Thursday to more than a decade in federal prison for shooting a Mexican drug smuggler and then trying to cover it up.
Ignacio Ramos was sentenced to 11 years and one day, and Jose Alonso Compean was sentenced to 12 years. Both were fired after their convictions on several charges including assault with a deadly weapon, obstruction of justice, and a civil rights violation.
The men, neither of whom spoke in court, will be allowed to turn themselves in Jan. 17.
The agents have proclaimed their innocence in the Feb. 17, 2005, shooting of admitted drug smuggler Osvlado Aldrete Davila.
Aldrete was shot in the buttocks as he fled across the Rio Grande into Mexico after a confrontation with Ramos and Compean. The agents said they shot in self defense, but prosecutors charged that they had no reason to shoot at the fleeing man, who later claimed he was unarmed.
Since their convictions, support for the agents has swelled. Several prominent law makers, including U.S. Rep. James Sensenbrenner, the Wisconsin Republican who chairs the House judiciary committee, have even called for a Congressional investigation into the agents' prosecutions.
The union representing most rank and file Border Patrol agents established a legal defense fund. And civilian border watch groups have asked the U.S. Attorney General's office to review the case and throw out the jury's guilty verdicts.
Then you are clueless.
Just look at who voted to pass the House bill requiring voter ID.
You probably shouldn't vote, but not for the reason you think.
The prosecutor is a traitor.
Lighten up Mike. At least I didn't really diss him by accusing him of being a product of the Ohio Public School System.
My cousin (47 yrs. old) and her husband (Sean & Donna Wilson) from Mt. Juliet, TN, were both killed in a car wreck in June by an illegal immigrant who was fleeing in an SUV from a policeman. The guy was drunk and had already been arrested on at least - read it - fourteen (14) different occasions for serious violations - with his status never being checked and worst of all him NOT BEING TAKEN OFF THE STREETS and sent back to Meckiko. - I tell you, when a person you have held in your arms as a baby dies in this manner, it becomes personal real fast.
THIS IS STUPID.
You are correct.
No, after reading further it appears they did quite a bit more than just shoot the person.
I should've read further before I posted.
The problem is not the GOP. It is a foreign subculture infiltration of the GOP oxymoronically called neocons (because they are not conservative) which exist to promote the NWO and global mercantilism, a move towards central planning. The GOP is fine, but it needs a strong paleocon (classical liberal) to come in and kick out the neocons, return this country to its Common Law roots that came out of England with the Magna Carta. The democrat side of the aisle has also been similarly infiltrated. That is why you get the feeling that there is no difference between the parties. Both have been too heavily infiltrated by elements that descend from socialist roots, and wants to expand the scope Roman civil law which is far less friendly to individual rights, and far more tilted toward the legislature controlled by a ruling elite.
BS. He's stated many times that he's part of neither party, but his views tend toward Libertarian.
Mind telling me where a STATE governor has standing to intervene in a FEDERAL case involving the misdeeds of FEDERAL officers?
Here's a link
http://www.elpasotimes.com/breakingnews/ci_4517799
post if a couple more times for posterity.
I have written both of my senators. Unfortunately my Congressman is now running, not so successfully, for Governor.
Best of luck.
phoenix0468
Nope. It's common sense.
In my book picking up your shellcasings is at most a ministerial fault.
It's a felony.
Is this one of Ernesto's girls?
You lost me.
I went to a private college prep school, then did undergraduate work and graduate work and then got a doctorate.
Did you graduate from high school?
Then go somewhere else to some other country more to your liking.
Hey, it was in El Paso; how smart could the jurors be?
Were they told about the immunity deal? They certainly should be so that they can judge the veracity and trustworthiness of the witness.
Nicccceee...
That these corrupt cops are going to jail.
Hopefully they won't be pardoned.
Ramos didn't even see the shooting - still got 10+ years.
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