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Texas deputy to pay price for defending self
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20070202-124744-1388r.htm
The U.S. attorney, who won lengthy prison terms last year for two U.S. Border Patrol agents in the shooting of a drug-smuggling suspect, also prosecuted Edwards County Deputy Sheriff Guillermo F. Hernandez, who is to be sentenced next month.
The Sheriff's lawyer should demand a review of the "evidence."
The cartels must have some sort of dirt on him...