Your violins are killin' me!
• Yes, Compean's attorney requested a continuance because Kanof had piled on to the indictment the Civil Rights and Crime of Violence counts and argued she needed time to prepare.
• Yes, Ramos' and Compean were allowed removal of electronic monitoring.
• Yes, the smuggler had a serious injury.
• Yes, the government made an appointment Aldrete-Davila to have special surgery on Oct 25th at Brooks Army Medical Center (because he needed a specialist and there are "only a couple in the country"). Brooks made special arrangements "to fit him in between all of their war people."
One wonders why Aldrete-Davila still hadn't had the surgery as of the trial in February. What else was he doing in October that made him miss this critical appointment?
Perhaps the answer is over here with respect to the "October load":
I'm sorry, I thought the point of the transcripts was for Freepers to read them and provide a synpopsis of the testimony for those who didn't have time to read the entire transcripts. By posting here I intended to provide ample opportunity for the pro-pardon folks to correct anything in my statement that might be based on my opinion rather than what was stated in the transcript.
If you are upset with the picture it paints of the case, talk to the transcript, not me.
I quoted that section about the specialists because people have asked why a drug dealer got to be treated at an army facility, and not just a normal hospital. The transcript gave a possible explanation, being that his injuries were not trivial and the army hospital had the expertise in the type of wound he had suffered.
It should also cool speculation and some outrage over why he had to be treated in the U.S. at all, rather than the local clinic in Mexico -- again, because the injury appears to be complicated and require a special skill that I imagine is lacking in Mexico.
I assume by your LACK of complaint that you do agree that we can dismiss the speculation that the court delay was requested because of the "october load" incident. I see you have now moved to speculating the the surgery postponement (assuming there was a surgery postponement, I simply haven't seen that because I wasn't looking for it and I don't remember anybody mentioning it before) was because of the "october load" incident.
But since that has no more basis in fact than the speculation of the trial postponement, I am not inclined to accept the speculation at this time (nor do I think it really matters why his surgery was postponed).