U.S. prosecution of border guards is a baffling miscarriage of justice Saturday, March 10, 2007 The Associated Press article "Border-shooting case shrouded in confusion," Feb. 17, omitted many facts from the trial transcripts and Department of Homeland Security memos. The government prosecuted Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean criminally for acts that called only for an administrative reprimand, based the case on the testimony of an admitted drug smuggler brought back from Mexico and induced to testify by a grant of immunity, withheld crucial evidence from the jury, used the wrong law (which carries a mandatory additional 10-year sentence), and...
