[CharlesWayneCT]

Why would I bother? Ramos stipulated that he shot the guy. That means that he essentially confessed to it, and it was not an issue in the trial.

You remind me of the jurors in the infamous Marion Barry crack cocaine trial, who found him innocent of smoking crack cocaine when they watched an undercover tape of the event. Said the jurors -- we aren't sure that the stuff he's smoking is crack, it looks like it might be sugar.

[spectre]

See, Charles...what we have then is which is the greater crime? Shooting a DRUG DEALER who drove across the border with the intent of selling his million dollars worth of drugs? OR Two border-patrolmen who didn't follow procedure in doing their job?

I choose to overlook whatever law they violated, and send a clear message to other drug dealers, that we are armed and dangerous if they are caught and try to flee.

The precedent we set by convicting R & C is a signal to other Drug Smugglers that we have to obey the law, even if they don't. It's the same message we broadcast to the Illegals. That there are TWO sets of laws, one for them and another for us.

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