BREAKING NEWS: Two Border Patrol Agents who wounded a drug smuggler given 11 and 12 years prison.

Lou Dobbs / CNN | 10-19-06 | no dems

[no dems]

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.

[Ajnin]

They weren't justified in their obstruction of justice, which you've been denying for weeks.

I've denied no such thing. Considering the governement's abuse in this case it's plausible they didn't obstruct justice. Personally, I think befriending drug smugglers, supressing facts, intidmidating defense wintnesses and jury misconduct represents a miscarriage of justice. You seem to think it's fine, don't you. You're positively orgasmic over the obstrcution of justics by the agents yet you support and defend the obstruction by the goverment.

[PRND21]

We are literally on the same page. You just format better than I. ;)

[PRND21]

Considering the governement's abuse in this case it's plausible they didn't obstruct justice.

"Look for...the Union Libel..."

See post #699.

You've been dishonest throughout, BP Agent Anjin.

[La Enchiladita]

Why are you defending the drug mule?

Because he or she is just working their shift on this thread. If you'll notice, the 'bots rotate their duties.

To PRND21: You realize, by continuing to post, you are bumping the thread ... ?

[PRND21]

To PRND21: You realize, by continuing to post, you are bumping the thread ... ?

Yes.
You realize, by continuing to blame the "bots", that you have no credibility?

[La Enchiladita]

Who is "blaming the 'bots?" What are you talking about?

[WatchingInAmazement]

Do you believe the sentencing of U.S. Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean to more than 10 years in federal prison is a travesty of American justice?

Yes 96% 2385 votes

No 4% 104 votes

Total: 2489 votes

http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/lou.dobbs.tonight/

poll is active at this time.

[PRND21]

#704. You can't help yourself.

[Brad’s Gramma]

http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/lou.dobbs.tonight/

[onyx]

Oh, Oh. I think you're lost. Here's your home.

[AnnaZ]

Why are you defending the drug mule?

Actually, PRND21 has stated on this thread that he believes the dealer should be jailed as well.

However, PRND21, this statement of yours is equally unfair:

Only the one percenters and grifters are whining about the decision.

Do you believe the sentencing of U.S. Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean to more than 10 years in federal prison is a travesty of American justice?

Yes		96%	5685 votes
No		4%	219 votes
Total: 5904 votes

Most of the folks in Washington that are complaining about this wouldn't fall into that category either. (A category, or two, that I don't even completely understand. One-percenter, i.e. biker? Grifter? Huh?)

[EternalVigilance]

Hmmmm...looks like our friend is the "4%"er...

[Desron13]

"They weren't wrongly convicted. 12-0...Obstruction of justice. They are felons."

Yeah, and OJ walked. Go figure. The worst thing that you can say about these guys is that they didn't want to spend the next three days filling out paper work or maybe that they need a little more time at the range. I'm really starting to warm up to the idea of a twenty foot concrete wall with armored, robotic 50 cal turrets every three hundred yards. Sort of a Phalanx system for vermin.

[PRND21]

That CNN poll, like many of these FR threads, does not mention what the agents were actually convicted of doing. Namely obstruction of justice.

Typical CNN BS.

[PRND21]

Yeah, and OJ walked. Go figure.

Irrelevant.

The worst thing that you can say about these guys is that they didn't want to spend the next three days filling out paper work...

What part of FELONY don't you understand?

[PRND21]

You have no credibility.

[EternalVigilance]

Hey, at least I'm convincing somebody.

[PRND21]

Hey, at least I'm convincing somebody.

How are TBLSHW and Simcox?

[BeHoldAPaleHorse]

Do you believe that right and wrong is decided solely by majority vote?

[Dante3]

Outrageous! I bet the prosecutor and judge are involved in some other nefarious acts also. And then there was the stupid jury.