Don’t forget about Agent Sipe who was cleared on retrial.
A former U.S. Border Patrol agent who was convicted in 2001 of violating an illegal immigrant’s civil rights during a fight has been cleared of the crime in a second trial.
David Sipe, 35, of Bethany, Okla., said he wants his old job back and wages lost during his hiatus from the Border Patrol.
“After having this over my head the last seven years, I am almost at a loss as to how I am supposed to behave now,” Sipe said after Friday’s verdict. “I haven’t had a job that pays more than $9 an hour because when you are a pending felon nobody hires you.
“There is a lot of time that I lost that I don’t get to have back.”
In 2001, a federal jury found Sipe guilty of hitting Jose Guevara of Mexico in the head with a flashlight during an arrest near Penitas, which is just west of McAllen in South Texas.
Sipe argued that he was defending himself. Guevara required five staples in his head and later won an $80,000 lawsuit settlement from the government.
Sipe requested a new trial on the grounds that prosecutors suppressed evidence that would have helped his defense. U.S. District Judge Ricardo Hinojosa granted Sipe’s request, and a federal appeals court upheld the Hinojosa’s ruling.
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