Especially when you read the whole story....
Because she has been in America illegally, she faces deportation, although her family will fight to keep her here. Torres' nightmare began after Romeo Einstein Acuna, a 49-year-old video store owner, was stabbed to death in the hallway of his Jackson Heights home on Sept. 25, 2002. Detectives found a message from Torres on Acuna's phone and discovered her necklace in his apartment, so they brought her in for 18 hours of questioning. She wrote a five-page confession.
But Sapone (the scum-sucking defense lawyer in this case) said his client has an IQ "bordering on mental retardation" and (stop me if you;ve heard this one before...) had no understanding of what the confession meant. <snip>
Sapone was brought into the case last year by the Mexican Consulate after Torres' case was adjourned 44 times. <snip>
Although Torres "confessed" to stabbing Acuna "two or more times" in the kitchen of his apartment, blood was in every room of the flat and his body with 21 knife wounds was found in a hallway," said Sapone. He also said blood from one unidentified person and saliva from another was found mixed with Acuna's blood. < end story>
So endless trial delays, combined with legal tactics led to the release of an illegal alien with no hope of gainful employment. That's the way it goes in our criminal justice system.
You did a good job of summing it up btw.
So, it wasn't that she didn't do it (that remains to be seen), it was that they couldn't prove it and besides, she is retarded. So her lawyer scams the system. A lawyer defending an American citizen in Mexico in that way would be summarily disbarred. I am sick to death of the Mexican consuls getting involved in our criminal justice system. She should be deported because she is here illegally. Or has Bush included every last mentally retarded person in Mexico in his open borders for all invitation?