Facts are your friend. They were convicted on March 8, not August.
Those are news accounts OF the trial--from reporters that ATTENDED the trial and heard the testimony.
http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/txw/press_releases/2006/Compean.con.pdf
U.S. Department of Justice
U.S. Attorneys Office
Western District of Texas
Johnny Sutton, U.S. Attorney
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 8, 2006
TWO U.S. BORDER PATROL AGENTS CONVICTED OF ASSAULT CHARGES United States Attorney Johnny Sutton announced that a federal jury in El Paso this afternoon convicted two U.S. Border Patrol agents on charges associated with a February 2005 shooting incident. The jury convicted Ignacio Ramos (a.k.a. Nacho) and Jose Alonso Compean with assault with serious bodily injury, assault with a deadly weapon, discharge of a firearm in relation to a crime of violence and a civil rights charge. Compean and Ramos were also convicted of four counts and two counts, respectively, of obstruction of justice. The jury acquitted both defendants of assault with intent to commit murder.
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