While I'll probably get flamed for this, I personally think these two lied through their teeth, tried to cover up this shooting and deserved to get in trouble, but the sentence was way too excessive and it's pretty darned clear that the legislators did not have this kind of case in mind when they passed this law with the ten year mandatory minimum sentence. Hopefully this makes people think twice about the wisdom in having so many long mandatory minimum sentences. There are almost always going to be times when the facts are there for a conviction under a broad interpretation of the statute but the harsh mandatory sentence is not at all warranted.
Compean panicked, went Rambo, whatever (I won’t argue one or the other). Ramos got the shaft because he stuck up for his partner.