Posted on 02/27/2007 3:21:08 AM PST by calcowgirl
"Along with that high respect, the jury had high expectations."
This I don't doubt for a minute. What I want to know is if they had the correct expectations based on the reality of being out in the field--as opposed to expectations pulled out of a government lawyer's ass.
I want to know what law enforcement people say about this. I respect what my fellow attorneys who do this kind of work say about the record on appeal--but I do not believe that the transcripts necessarily represent transcendent truth or the reality in the field.
Your comments have been right on as to how an appellate court would look at things. I'm going somewhere different.
>>In spite of what the conspiracists say, the shooting of the smuggler was not the big issue. In fact, the authorities have said they would not have prosecuted them for the shooting if they had not tried to cover it up. They probably would have lost their job, but not prosecuted. For the Border Patrol, the cover up was worse than the shooting.<<
You, like the Ramos/Compean jury, have swallowed the prosecution's lie that if they had reported it, they would have been cleared. However, Deputy Gilmer Hernandez reported the accidental shooting of an illegal Mexican immigrant. The sheriff was not going to file charges against Hernandez. Mexico wrote a letter and Johnny Sutton prosecuted. Sound familiar? He is going to be sentenced on March 12. Hmmm, Bush will be in Mexico on that date with Mexican Pres. Calderone, who will probably toast Bush with a Viejo Vergel brandy for doing him that favor. In my view, it was despicable for the prosecutor to lie to the jury in the summation.
From Kanof's summation to the jury:
20 You know, Mr. Compean testified that the reason he
21 didn't tell anybody that -- well, he told Luis Barker -- the
22 reason that he didn't tell anybody about the shooting is
23 because, well, they always side with the aliens.
24 Of course, the agents are always cleared when they do
25 it in an hour. The agents are always cleared. Oh, but, you
David A. Perez, CSR, RPR
100
1 know, we're going to shoot somebody in the back and not talk
2 about it, because it's too much paperwork.
"Of course, the agents are always cleared when they do
it in an hour. The agents are always cleared."
>>Perhaps Sutton only loves certain smugglers and maybe he hates only the BP agents who interfere with those smugglers.<<
He loves the ones that the Mexican Government want to protect.
You start with Ramos & Compean, then jump to Hernandez, then jump back to R & C.
Border Patrol Agent reports shooting and gets cleared in 3 days.
No, I brought up Hernandez to show that Sutton, and other working for Alberto Gonzalez, will put law enforcement officers in jail if Mexico complains, whether they report the shooting or not. You claimed that is "faultly logic" without any explanation.
Some BP agents are cleared if Mexico doesn't complain. I never claimed that Sutton prosecutes all shootings. In the future, I would expect Mexico not to leave a paper trail when it demands prosecution of our citizens.
Sorry, typos. Should say "and others" and "faulty logic"
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