Posted on 06/17/2004 5:02:20 PM PDT by Marine Inspector
Member of Civilian Border Patrol Convicted on Weapons Charge; Mistrial on Assault
HEBBRONVILLE, Texas June 17, 2004 — A member of a self-styled border patrol group who was accused of pistol-whipping an illegal immigrant was found guilty of gun possession. But the jury deadlocked on the assault charge.
Casey Nethercott, a 37-year-old member of Ranch Rescue, could get up to 20 years in prison on the weapons offense. A new trial on the assault charge was set for July 27 after the hung jury Wednesday.
Nethercott was accused of assaulting Edwin Alfredo Mancia Gonzales, 26, last year while Nethercott and other members of the armed group were patrolling a ranch in the South Texas town of Hebbronville.
Ranch owner Joe Sutton said he had asked for the group's help because he did not want illegal immigrants and drug smugglers on his land. Mancia was trespassing on Sutton's land to get past a border checkpoint.
Nethercott, Ranch Rescue and the Suttons are also being sued by immigrants' rights groups in a case expected to be heard in August.
Ranch Rescue's stated mission is defending private property. It has seized drugs and rounded up illegal immigrants along the nation's border with Mexico.
Ping.
20 years in prison for "gun possession" in Texas? Whatever happened to "the right of the people to keep and bear arms?" Why do I sense a contradiction?
"Gun possession" in Texas? Hell, everybody in Texas has a gun. Heck, they got 2, 3 or 4 guns. All their friends have guns too! What are they going to do? Put everyone in jail?
It's possible he is a convicted felon or under a restraining order.
If the land was posted and the alien was told to leave and didn't, he could have been shot.
As usual, the mediots left out a lot of information.
Under our current laws, he is a convicted felon and has lost the right to possess a firearm.
The gun possession charge is because he's a convicted felon.
No, it's about the law and Casey broke it.
Agreed.
He is a convicted felon, that's why he lost the possession part of the law suit.
I'll bet he beats the assault charges.
This is bad.
Looks like casy james nethercott is from california and he has an arrest record, could be a felon.
ping
See my post above.
Name
NETHERCOTT,CASEY JAMES Other Name Used
YES Date of Birth
Jun 7 1967 Case Number
01NM00886
Orig. Filing Date
Jan 24 2001 Curr. Charging Doc.
Complaint Curr. Charging Doc. File Date
Jan 24 2001 Disposition Date
Jul 17 2002
That came from orange county.
Another from Riverside:NameCA Riverside Criminal Detail
Name
NETHERCOTT CASEY JAMES Date of Birth
Jun 7 1967 Case Number
CR62260
Charges
Case Number
CR62260 Filing Date
Mar 31 1995 Probation Expiration
Convicted Charges
245(A)(2) PC , 245(A)(2) PC
object lesson to middle America....know it...learn it....live it....or else
imo
Aggravated Assault. From "MySanAntonio.com":
Mancia testified he was hit on the right side of the head, but Jacobson asked him about a police report made the day after the reported assault indicating he was hit on the left side.
"I don't think (the statement) was right because I told the lady that it was on the right side," Mancia said of the clerk who translated his statement into English.
Mancia testified he didn't know how much time went by before he was hit. Reminded of a deposition taken April 14, he said Nethercott hit him four minutes after he was caught.
Mancia initially testified he had a lump on his head for two weeks after the incident. Reminded of the same deposition, he changed his answer to one day.
"The swelling went away in one day, but the redness didn't go away in one day," Mancia testified.
Alberto Reyna, a Border Patrol agent who took a statement from Mancia a few hours after the alleged assault, said he didn't notice a lump.
"It was a bruise," Reyna testified.
But Texas Ranger Doyle Holdridge, who interviewed Mancia several hours after Reyna, said there was swelling.
"There was a knot half the size of my fist on the back of his head," Holdridge testified.
He said he wasn't aware that Ranch Rescue was in South Texas until this case and described it as "a disaster looking for a place to happen."
Before prosecutors rested their case Tuesday, a video was shown to the jury of a taped interview of Nethercott on Fox News' "The O'Reilly Factor."
Nethercott said he participated in the patrol because Sutton was at his "wits end" over trespassers. He said the immigrants weren't assaulted, but rather given food, water and a blanket.
"It's lies made up by the police department that investigated me," Nethercott said of the charges against him.
If convicted, Nethercott, of Douglas, Ariz., could face up to life in prison. He was convicted previously in California for aggravated assault.
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