Posted on 04/02/2007 2:02:26 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Two illegal aliens plan a multimillion-dollar civil rights lawsuit against a Texas deputy who was sentenced to prison over an April 2005 incident in which the lawman shot at an alien-smuggling vehicle that he said had just tried to run him down.
Edwards County Deputy Sheriff Guillermo F. Hernandez, along with his boss, Sheriff Donald G. Letsinger, have been targeted in a pending lawsuit by Maricela Rodriguez-Garcia and Candido Garcia-Perez, two Mexicans who were being smuggled into the U.S. when they were injured by fragments of the lawman's bullets.
Mrs. Rodriguez-Garcia, struck by bullet fragments in the cheek and mouth, and Mr. Garcia-Perez, injured when fragments hit him in the arm, will seek damages from the two lawmen when the lawsuit is filed in U.S. District Court in Del Rio, Texas.
Court records show Mrs. Rodriguez-Garcia and Mr. Garcia-Perez told investigators that they paid $2,000 each to be taken across the Rio Grande from Acuna, Mexico. They said they later met the vehicle's driver and a guide, who were to take them to Austin and Dallas.
Both Mexican nationals are thought to be in the U.S. and have filed notice that they intend to sue. A legally required mediation hearing, where disputing parties meet with a neutral third party to try to resolve a dispute without going to court, is scheduled for today in Austin.
James D. Doyle III, an Austin-based attorney who represents the two Mexicans, did not return calls to his office for comment. But law-enforcement officials and others familiar with the case said the lawsuit will accuse the deputy of using excessive force that caused serious injury to Mrs. Rodriguez-Garcia, and that in firing at the vehicle, Hernandez abused his authority and grossly overreacted under the circumstances.
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I wish I could serve on the jury.
This made me so mad this morning I wanted to spit. Why are these people in the United States? It has now come down to the point where our law enforcement people don't have a right to defend themselves, let alone enforce the damn law. My one remaining molecule of admiration for the Bush administration is being destroyed.
If they still aren't allowed in the country legally, then how can they make it to the mediator? If they do make it, then they should be arrested, if they don't doesn't that nullify the lawsuit?
Damn, I thought this was about Aliens, i.e. extra-terrestrials. This is about illegal immigrants. Oh well. Back to work.
Until it is no longer even a possibility that these yahoos would consider such a suit, this country will continue to slide into the crapper. For me, this is an absolute. Indeed, if I were king for a year, the plaintiffs, and their lawyers would receive a stiff sentence for anti-American activity.
I voted for Bush twice but I have lost every morsel of respect that I had for him. I am tired of defending him. He is spineless and gutless and refuses to secure our borders. We are doomed, my friends.
Bush wins another one.
First the border agents now this guy.
When he wants to, the President knows how to deliver a message.
I am so sick of this crap that’s why I changed my voter status to independent from Republician!
Yup: “All you border patrol guys seem to have forgotten that you’re only there for window dressing! Leave my precious Mexicans ALONE, or suffer the consequences!”
Wonder where this bottom feeder attained his "law" degree?
What standing do they have?
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