Posted on 02/18/2007 10:26:04 PM PST by Mount Athos
An illegal alien got a "get out of jail free card" plus U.S. legal documents and monetary compensation from federal prosecutors in exchange for his testimony against a U.S. Border Patrol agent accused of using excessive force during an arrest.
Former agent David Sipe, who was convicted and fired, recently won an acquittal at a court-ordered retrial.
A federal appeals court in Texas ordered the new trial, saying prosecutors gave the illegal alien and two others additional inducements not disclosed at the time for their testimony, including Social Security cards, witness fees, permits allowing travel to and from Mexico, living expenses and free use of government phones.
"The government stated in writing the aliens were allowed to remain and work in the United States pending trial and specified that 'no other promises or advantages' had been given," the court said. "That was not true."
Mr. Sipe, 35, of Bethany, Okla., was convicted in 2001 after a five-day jury trial in McAllen, Texas, before U.S. District Judge Ricardo Hinojosa. U.S. Attorney Mervyn Mosbacker Jr.'s office charged the agent with using excessive force and causing bodily injury in the 2000 arrest of a Mexican national, Jose Guevara.
Mr. Sipe's attorney, Jack Lamar Wolfe, sought a new trial, accusing prosecutors of "misrepresentations and nondisclosures." After a hearing, Judge Hinojosa ordered a new trial, a ruling upheld by a 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel in Austin, Texas.
The appeals court agreed that prosecutors suppressed evidence that would have been favorable to Mr. Sipe's defense. The new trial was moved to Brownsville, Texas, before U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen, and an acquittal was handed down Jan. 26.
The court said that in its pre-sentence report, prosecutors disclosed information to a probation officer they had not given to the defense,
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Another great story to send to Roger Hedgecock, Rush, Sean Hannity, and Michael Savage. Nothing like exposure on national talk radio to have the American people start asking a lot of questions.
U.S. Attorney Mervyn Mosbacker Jr. apparently uses the same M.O. as that other corrupt scumbag Johnny Sutton.
What is it with Texas?
Like the other case, of two agents currently incarcerated that is threatening to blow up into a national scandal, this Sipes case is one where the pencil-pushers decide they're going to make an example out of a straight cop, who risks his life for pennies, and it backfires on them.
Gotta criminalize defending the nation, just as multi-culturists mongers insist on criminalize respecting the Constitution.
You got that right
I guess the only question that remains is if we want red or green chile with our sellout.
Check this one out--it's enough to make you want to scream.
I don't know if anything has ever made me madder than these prosecutions. I'm about ready for an impeachment myself, now. Screw the dems and their "impeach Bush" mantra over the war, which I heartily support (the war, not the mantra). If Bush is selling our own sovereignty out, for some kind of North American Union... I'm about ready to make up my own "impeach Bush" sign.
Not Ramos and Compean--different case.
It was bad enough when stuff like this would happen under Clinton. That's what we expected from a dirtbag like him. I think most of us here expected much better from Bush. If he can't bring himself to defend this country's borders, maybe he should resign and move to Mexico.
We now need a scorecard to keep track of all the different examples of betrayal from our own government, the feds and the increasingly pathetic Bush Administration. And, silly me, I remember looking forward to Bush taking office. Those were the days. The naive days.
It has become obvious that in some areas Bush is no better than slickwillie
These cases are just the tip of the iceberg. There are far more cases in which the government wasn't able to prosecute because it was just too obvious that the agents were innocent. DHS/OIG tried to get murder indictments on four agents from El Centro Sector after they tried to save a criminal alien from choking on his own crack cocaine. The whole thing was caught on camera! Rather than review the tapes, they unsucessfully tried to get indictments based on the word of another criminal alien. These cases are not anomalies, they represent persistant and frequent attacks on those that dare enforce the law.
*BUMP*!
(seething...) I hadn't heard of that one. Thank God it was caught on camera.
Unbelievable.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
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