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Prosecutors Gone Wild [Johnny Sutton]
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| July 19, 2007
| RJ
Posted on 07/19/2007 2:51:43 PM PDT by rob88888
In hearings held this week Sutton blamed the decision to prosecute the border agents and to pursue an excessive punishment on his superiors at the Justice Department. He also attempted to explain his use of the federal statute which normally applies to the use of a firearm in a violent crime by bringing up various other examples of law officers prosecuted under the statute, but all of the examples differed significantly from the case in question, because Osvaldo Aldrete Davila (the drug smuggler) was attempting to evade arrest. In the other cases where the statute has been used which Sutton himself selected as examples, the victims were cooperating with the abusive officers. Sutton also raises issues about the agents careless handling of the case. They actually let Aldrete escape (his wound didn't stop him from running away), and treated the encounter as if it weren't significant and didn't bother to report the shooting. Clearly they had reason to not want to be upfront with their superiors, based on how they ended up being treated.
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KEYWORDS: aliens; border; compean; immigrantlist; policebrutality; ramos; sutton
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To: mnehrling
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1858838/posts
Key Quote: However, he said he ditched that plan after seeing Sutton produce a steady stream of investigations, prosecutions and convictions of other Border Patrol agents.
To: mnehrling
Like me, they think that the sentence against the agents is too harsh, but they dont blame Sutton.If he hadn't been such a zealot to prosecute them and honor an illegal alien drug smuggler no one would be blaming him.
42
posted on
07/19/2007 5:05:39 PM PDT
by
raybbr
(You think it's bad now - wait till the anchor babies start to vote.)
To: rob88888
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posted on
07/19/2007 5:06:47 PM PDT
by
Pelham
(Deportation- without it you have amnesty.)
To: Continental Soldier
Why hasnt Johnny Sutton been fired? Why wasnt he among the US attorneys to be canned? Sutton is a friend of Bush's since his days as Governor.
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posted on
07/19/2007 5:08:39 PM PDT
by
Pelham
(Deportation- without it you have amnesty.)
To: raybbr
So. Fire Sutton or better yet put him on trial for wrongful prosecution. And, if it can be proved that he know prior to the trial that the illegal was still smuggling drugs then Sutton should go to jail.Second that.
45
posted on
07/19/2007 5:11:27 PM PDT
by
Pelham
(Deportation- without it you have amnesty.)
To: elizabetty
Sorry, inept attempt at a joke. But even if these jurors are American citizens, I repeat: Send them back home - along with Johnny Sutton.
Something stinks in that judicial arena.
46
posted on
07/19/2007 5:11:45 PM PDT
by
hotshu
(Chilean sea bass? Anything in front of Algore while he has a fork is an endangered specie.)
To: Westpole
Then with any luck maybe you can share a cell with him.
47
posted on
07/19/2007 5:13:35 PM PDT
by
Pelham
(Deportation- without it you have amnesty.)
To: raybbr
I just watched that POS defend himself on Glenn Beck.So did I.
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posted on
07/19/2007 5:40:46 PM PDT
by
PGalt
To: muawiyah
Only new thing here is the take that Sutton was trying to shift blame for his excesses to the folks at DOJ “headquarters”.
Don’t think Johnny Sutton made a move without first consulting with the DC DOJ and he’s a personal friend of George W. Bush.
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posted on
07/19/2007 5:46:08 PM PDT
by
SwinneySwitch
(US Constitution Article 4 Section 4..shall protect each of them against Invasion...domestic Violence)
To: Grunthor
"who do you think is going to do that?"
Uh, that brilliant jurist, AG AG?
50
posted on
07/19/2007 6:49:33 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
(Islam is the religion of violins, NOT peas.)
To: Paladin2
“Uh, that brilliant jurist, AG AG?”
now follow me here, who does the AG work for?
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posted on
07/19/2007 7:03:38 PM PDT
by
Grunthor
(Wouldn’t it be music to our ears to hear the Iranian mullahs shouting “Incoming!”?)
To: Westpole
Since you know Sutton maybe you can explain why he felt the need to lie in this case.
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posted on
07/19/2007 7:14:58 PM PDT
by
Ajnin
(Neca Eos Omnes. Deus Suos Agnoset.)
To: Calvin Locke
I think the complete quote is “Any decent prosecuter can get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich on the death of the pig”.
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posted on
07/19/2007 7:39:42 PM PDT
by
MrEdd
(L. Ron Gore creator of "Fry-n-tology" the global warming religion.)
To: mnehrling
I really do not get all the folks who think they get to second guess the people actually involved in the trial.
There have been almost 50 shooting incidents there and these two are the only border patrol agents to be tried.
It is clear to me they thought they were above the law and that puts everybody at risk, not just the bad guys.
54
posted on
07/19/2007 7:43:52 PM PDT
by
elizabetty
(The funding dried up and I can no longer afford Tagline Messages.)
To: rob88888
But he’s Jorge El Segundo’s “Amigo Bueno”
HE told us that tonight on TV.
Translation: Sutton was carrying out the instructions I gave Gonzales which were the instructions the Mexican Government gave me. Now go sit down and shut up. I know best what is good for America, not the majority of Americans.
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posted on
07/19/2007 7:50:15 PM PDT
by
ZULU
(Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts and guns made America great.)
To: MrEdd
Ah, that makes perfectly logical sense. Now if I can only remember that.
To: elizabetty
I really do not get all the folks who think they get to second guess the people actually involved in the trial.Is OJ Simpson innocent of murder? Would you let your kids sleep over at Michael Jackson's house?
Sometimes the people involved in the trial don't get it right. There are numerous problems associated with this case that would lead a reasonable person to believe that these agents did not get a fair trial.
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posted on
07/19/2007 9:04:37 PM PDT
by
Ajnin
(Neca Eos Omnes. Deus Suos Agnoset.)
To: elizabetty
There have been almost 50 shooting incidents there and these two are the only border patrol agents to be tried.I don't know where you are getting the 50 shootings from, Sutton only claimed there were 14. Just because they didn't convict any other agents for discharging their weapons doesn't mean they didn't want to or didn't try.
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posted on
07/19/2007 9:09:03 PM PDT
by
Ajnin
(Neca Eos Omnes. Deus Suos Agnoset.)
To: elizabetty
It is clear to me they thought they were above the law and that puts everybody at risk, not just the bad guys.If this case had merit then Sutton and his prosecutors wouldn't have to lie and change their stories.
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posted on
07/19/2007 9:12:23 PM PDT
by
Ajnin
(Neca Eos Omnes. Deus Suos Agnoset.)
To: Westpole
OMG!!! Just watching that SNIDE WEASEL Johnny Sutton was dosgusting and I am ambivalent about the case!! You must only meet some really corrupt people to think that this guy is a good guy. You must be a man because a woman could see his BS a mile away.
One thing I do know about the case...he says the drug delaer was UNARMED but No one FRISKED the drug dealer. He;'s a creep.
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posted on
07/19/2007 9:14:31 PM PDT
by
Suzy Quzy
(Hillary in '08.....Her PHONINESS is GENUINE !!!!)
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