Was Sutton the prosecutor on this one also?
Hernandez was relieved of his duties as a deputy sheriff and transported to Del Rio, Texas where he was held for trial for violating the civil rights of an illegal alien—Garcia—who broke the law by being in the country, and was part of a group who tried to kill the deputy.
That was the point made by Congressman Ted Poe [R-TX] made on the floor of Congress seeking a presidential pardon for Hernandez. POE detailed the events that transpired around midnight on April 14, 2005 into the Congressional Record, and then in disgust, told Speaker Nancy Pelosi: "The vehicle stops," Poe said, "and eight or nine illegals jump out and take off running into the sagebrush. One illegal had a minor injury form a bullet. The US government rounds up six or seven of the illegals and—guess what? [They prosecute] Deputy Hernandez, claiming he recklessly discharged his firearm—and uses illegals as witnesses against the lawman during the trial."
That, of course, is precisely the strategy Sutton used in the government's case against Ramos and Compean. Sutton gave drug smuggler Osvaldo Aldrete immunity from prosecution for drug smuggling to testify that the two border patrol agents recklessly discharged their firearms and wounded him. Poe told the Speaker that "...this is another example of how the federal government is more concerned about people illegally invading America than it is about the men who protect America. Once again, our government is on the wrong side of the border war."
http://www.newswithviews.com/Ryter/jon161.htm