Posted on 02/01/2007 9:01:42 AM PST by calcowgirl
New tidbits, among them:
Words cannot describe how much I abhor Johnny Sutton.
There were 14 previous shootings by Border Agents under Sutton's watch. These included 4 fatalities. In each of those cases, the agents were able to justify their actions. None of them obstructed justice. Result: they were never indicted.
Stop injecting reason into the argument!
Exactly. When will FReepers stop calling these guys heroes???
What's good for the geese......
They obstructed justice only if you beleive the prosecution. Based on the above, can you really trust Sutton?
I don't care if he did charity work for orphans...the more info that comes out on this case...the more he is in the wrong.
More proof Justice IS blind?
Does WND just re-run the same stories week after week?
Only until they have fabricated new stories. I take any news stories from WND with a grain of salt...... the size of a small house.
Bingo.
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Actually, I think they have them cued up for one or two a day, for your pleasure.
Here's another from today that hasn't been posted:
:)
Somehow the word "just" doesn't enter this picture, imo.
Poe, who was previously both a Texas prosecutor and judge, commented, "As defense attorney you should never stipulate anything."
The defense stipulates anything that would be easily provable, and for which it would damage the defendant to have it proven in court. In fact, often the prosecution won't ask for stipulation because presenting evidence of something makes it more powerful.
The best known local case of this was the Marion Barry trial for cocaine possession and use. The defense stipulated that the substance in the room was cocaine. No reason not to, the cocaine was provided by the state to the informant in the sting, and the lab tests were conclusive and indisputable. The prosecution, seeing a chance to save some time, agreed.
The jury found Barry not guilty on the charge of cocaine possession, because several jurors convinced the rest that the powder in the video looked like sugar, not cocaine, and that if it was cocaine they would have presented evidence of it.
That may be happening in this case -- by stipulating, Sutton might not have presented the evidence, so the testimony won't show the ballistics report. Now Ramos and his team can argue that the testimony doesn't prove it, blame his lawyer, and plant seeds of doubt.
My earlier point was that there is nothing in this article that wasn't in an article a week ago. We've already discussed it, and it seems WND is simply republishing the same speculation again and again to drive up hit counts and make it look like there is more questions being raised every day, when it's just the same tired allegations repeated by the same second and third-hand sources. Ramirez and Bonner are favorites, although neither of them had anything to do with the case, and can only repeat what they heard from other people or read in selectively leaked documents and published accounts.
No new info has come out on this case since the trial. WND just keeps recycling the same stuff, but finding new people to "say" it so they can claim it's breaking news or something.
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