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.
You had better practice either staying home from the polls, or puckering your butt cheeks and voting for "other", because Bush isn't going to pardon these guys. So what if they were doing their job....It involves illegals and Mexico... Ole' Bush turns a blind eye to that "problem".
were the drugs hers?
I'll keep that in mind, because Dobbs is a Marxist democrat.
Help terrorists? Oh, that's just 28 months...!
I'm watching Dobbs because I'm sick and tired of Brit Hume and his sucky "Allstars".
Lou Dobbs is a Republican.
He is?
Where's the logo?
Man o man are you ignorant. (I'll let the more text verbose have at you.)
Don't hold your breath on that one.
GEORGE BUSH CALL YOUR OFFICE.
Lou Dobbs is a Marxist democrat.
No....This COUNTRY sucks.
I agree: he can run for the Mexican Presidency....and take CNN with 'em.....
http://www.fjc.gov/servlet/tGetInfo?jid=3018
It's been around for awhile. Two Border Patrol Agents in the El Paso area, stopped a drug smuggler with a gazillion pounds of dope in his van.
He pulled what looked like a gun. They fired. He ran, wounded, into Mexico. They did not know they hit him. Well, the rest is history.
In the trial, the U.S. Attorney said the drug smuggler was "going home" not smuggling drugs.
Actually - a better move would be for law enforcement to all get "blue flu". I hate to think what would happen with society, but if these law enforcement officers are going to be prosecuted (or should I say persecuted?) for DOING THEIR JOB, then what can be done?
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