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To: Dead Corpse
So, making an apples to apples comparison, all criminals shot by police should be able to get the officers charged with attempted murder?

The unarmed ones running away, perhaps.

Aldrete-Davila isn't exactly Larry Davis.

Considering, this isn't even the charge they are in jail for, your argument fails in the first line.

The prosecutor played it safe and charged them with assault with a dangerous weapon.

He was guaranteed a conviction on that charge, even though he had sufficient evidence to charge them with attempted murder.

That's his judgment call, and not one I would have made.

This was a travesty of justice from the get go. Figures you'd come down on the side of some black robed pervert instead of Justice.

Your weakness in constructing rational arguments to support your emotional outbursts is still on display.

The fact is that Compean was an embarassment to the Border Patrol - a ticking time bomb that was bound to go off. The fact that a huge liability like him was allowed to tarnish the service and bring down fellow agents means that there is a reason why our Border Patrol has been so ineffective.

Instead of encouraging incompetents like Compean we should be encouraging excellence.

63 posted on 09/12/2008 7:50:15 AM PDT by wideawake (Why is it that those who like to be called Constitutionalists know the least about the Constitution?)
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To: wideawake; Dead Corpse; calcowgirl
He was guaranteed a conviction on that charge, even though he had sufficient evidence to charge them with attempted murder.

I hate to rain on your parade, but Ramos and Compean were charged with attempted murder. They were found not guilty on that charge even though they admitted shooting to kill. To me the testimony clearly indicates that they were justified in the shooting.

65 posted on 09/12/2008 7:58:26 AM PDT by AndrewC
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To: wideawake
Your weakness in constructing rational arguments to support your emotional outbursts is still on display.

This from the guy who couldn't even get what they were actually tried on and convicted of, means almost nothing.

124 posted on 09/12/2008 10:01:42 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (What would a free man do?)
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