[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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[CharlesWayneCT]

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

Here's another one from your side who says he doesn't care much if they are guilty or not, because the shot a drug dealer.

[Marine Inspector]

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?

Irrelevant. Both are crimes and both should be punished accordingly.

I choose to overlook whatever law they violated

Congratulations, you’ve taken the first step toward a police state.

[TKDietz]

"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?"

It is very unlikely that this was his dope. People dealing in this kind of quantity tend to stay away from their product. They make plenty of money to pay people to take these kinds of risks for them. I've handled a lot of drug mule cases, thousands of pounds worth of them. These people that transport the dope are at the bottom of the pile when it comes to the drug trade. That's why most all of them end up with public defenders rather than high priced lawyers you would expect drug kingpins to hire. If this guy was hired to take this load across a few states he was probably going to earn somewhere in the neighborhood of five grand, maybe more, depending on how far he was going to have to take it. If he was actually the one who took it across the border he probably would have made more, but from what I am reading he was to take the wheel of a van full of dope after it was already smuggled into this country. If that's the case then how much money he would make would depend a lot on whether he was just driving it to a safe house not too far away in Texas or driving it out east several states over.

As for that pot being worth a million dollars, that's a bunch of nonsense. The people who bought it in Mexico probably paid a good bit less than a hundred grand for it, maybe even less than fifty grand. In Texas it would be worth maybe four or five hundred a pound, cheaper probably if bought several pounds at a time. It may be worth a million dollars by the time it reaches end consumers, but it would have changed hands a lot of times before then. The people that owned it at the time it was seized would have never made anywhere close to a million dollars on that load had it gotten through.