Someone explain to me, we're a country of laws right? So a criminal can now more easily toss the guy arresting him in jail than the other way around?
Did I wake up in Bizaro World?
Posted on 02/21/2007 5:33:44 AM PST by Gritty
The case of Border Patrol Agent David Sipe is an alarming example of misplaced priorities. On duty in April 2000 near Panitas, Texas...
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In the course of making the arrest, Mr. Sipe struck one of the border crossers, a Mexican national named Jose Guevara, in the head with his flashlight...
In 2001, Mr. Sipe, who had no previous complaints against him, was convicted for using excessive force, and dismissed from the Border Patrol...
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It turns out that three illegal aliens who testified against Mr. Sipe -- that is, Mr. Guevara along with two others who had fled into the reeds -- received a very nice gift package. The Washington Times reported Monday that the three illegals got Social Security cards, witness fees, travel expenses, living expenses and the use of government telephones to call relatives in Mexico, and were allowed to travel to and from Mexico and to North Carolina. The government offered everything to the three who had broken the law, all to obtain testimony against an agent who had enforced the law.
The U.S. Attorney's office, moreover, covered up the generous benefits it had handed out. It failed to disclose the fact that all three illegal aliens had been living together in the months preceding the trial. Nor did prosecutors reveal that when Border Patrol agents stopped Mr. Guevara, again traveling with illegal aliens, they let him go when he flashed the "get out of jail card" he got from the prosecutors. "His arrest with illegal aliens was evidence that he was a transporter," wrote the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in ordering a new trial, "as well as evidence of the extent of the government's support accorded him in order to obtain his testimony."
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Someone explain to me, we're a country of laws right? So a criminal can now more easily toss the guy arresting him in jail than the other way around?
Did I wake up in Bizaro World?
This morning? I'm not sure, but I don't think so.
As far as I can tell, it has been around since at least January 20, 1993. Maybe earlier.
Good point.
Bush had time over the Christmas holidays to pardon FIVE DRUG DEALERS;
he sure as hell oughta have time to pardon these BP agents.
He sure is taking his sweet time about it.
But cut him some slack. Maybe he doesn't have the transcript yet, either. Those things take "time", you know.
But cut him some slack. Maybe he doesn't have the transcript yet, either
This is SOP in our criminal justice system. Has been for decades.
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