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.
Aldrete-Davila the drug smuggler.
Thanks, Anna Z. Just what I was thinking as I began to read the thread.
Correction: Post 331 of this thread.
"You say if Kansas fairly votes herself a free state, as a christian you will rather rejoice at it. All decent slave-holders talk that way; and I do not doubt their candor. But they never vote that way. Although in a private letter, or conversation, you will express your preference that Kansas shall be free, you would vote for no man for Congress who would say the same thing publicly. No such man could be elected from any district in any slave-state. You think Stringfellow & Co. ought to be hung; and yet, at the next presidential election you will vote for the exact type and representative of Stringfellow. The slave-breeders and slave-traders, are a small, odious and detested class, among you; and yet in politics, they dictate the course of all of you, and are as completely your masters, as you are the masters of your own negroes.
You enquire where I now stand. That is a disputed point. I think I am a whig; but others say there are no whigs, and that I am an abolitionist. When I was at Washington I voted for the Wilmot Proviso as good as forty times, and I never heard of any one attempting to unwhig me for that. I now do no more than oppose the extension of slavery.
I am not a Know-Nothing. That is certain. How could I be? How can any one who abhors the oppression of negroes, be in favor of degrading classes of white people? Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that “all men are created equal.” We now practically read it “all men are created equal, except negroes.” When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read “all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and catholics.” When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty--to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocracy.
Mary will probably pass a day or two in Louisville in October. My kindest regards to Mrs. Speed. On the leading subject of this letter, I have more of her sympathy than I have of yours.
And yet let say I am
Your friend forever
A. Lincoln-- "
Call me an open border Republican. Ronald Reagan was also a Lincoln Republican.
Failure to write up a report concerning firing their weapons is, perhaps, in your view... an act of ommission and not necessarily... "falsifying"?
"A nation without borders is not a nation"
I notice that YOU never state whether you have served in any capacity whatsoever. Perchance a draft dodger? Chickens#!t? figures
He states it in his profile. A little reading never hurts.
If they were hiding, they didn't do it very well. Therefore, I attest again they were not trying to hide anything.
An unthinkable, unacceptable loss. I am so sorry.
What happened to the perp?
LOL You are right!
So he's a Libertarian? Hmmmm.
Not just the who, everyone involved, including the judge. He had to sign off on the plea bargin.
I am right with this. In the event that there is a question regarding the behavior of FEDERAL employees, may we agree that an investigation is appropriate? Else leave it to us in Texas, and we might let y'all know when the innocent have been executed. This is what you Yankees have alleged for one hundred and fifteen years. When YOUR chosen dirty ones get convicted, YOU blame our Governor. Shame on you.
I am from Alanta.
Atlanta, sorry, Lap top
I think that should be factored into the equation. So, uh, all those in favor of the verdict raise your hands again...?
As is Reyes, he was just thrilled with the verdict.
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