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Second Ex-Border Agent Resentenced in Shooting
« on: November 14, 2008, 07:07:32 AM »
A second former Border Patrol agent who received a lengthy sentence in a case involving the shooting of a fleeing drug smuggler has been resentenced to his original 11 years and a day in prison, as the agents' supporters hold out hope for presidential pardons.

Ignacio Ramos got the same sentence two years ago when he was convicted in the shooting of Osvaldo Aldrete Davila, an admitted, and now convicted, drug smuggler.

On Tuesday, U.S. District Court Judge Kathleen Cardone gave Ramos' partner, Jose Alonso Compean, his original 12-year sentence, 10 years on a charge of using a weapon in the commission of a felony and another two for assault and other charges. Both men have been in prison since January 2007.

In September, the 5th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in New Orleans threw out some convictions against Ramos and Compean, prompting this week's new sentencing hearings. But the court upheld the majority of the case against the pair, including the weapons charge that brought the mandatory sentence.

Ramos' resentencing was not unexpected, his attorney, David Botsford, told FOXNews.com.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,451424,00.html
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Re: Second Ex-Border Agent Resentenced in Shooting
« Reply #1 on: November 14, 2008, 07:49:58 AM »
If Bush doesn't pardon Ramos and Compean, I have no use for him.
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Re: Second Ex-Border Agent Resentenced in Shooting
« Reply #2 on: November 14, 2008, 11:17:28 AM »
Quote from: Rebel on November 14, 2008, 07:49:58 AM
If Bush doesn't pardon Ramos and Compean, I have no use for him.

I have to agree.
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Re: Second Ex-Border Agent Resentenced in Shooting
« Reply #3 on: November 14, 2008, 11:27:00 AM »
Bush has had ample time to pardon those two men. He hasn't. I doubt he will.
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Re: Second Ex-Border Agent Resentenced in Shooting
« Reply #4 on: November 14, 2008, 11:48:00 AM »
Quote from: Thor on November 14, 2008, 11:27:00 AM
Bush has had ample time to pardon those two men. He hasn't. I doubt he will.

I see him doing in in January sometime around the 18th or 19th.
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Re: Second Ex-Border Agent Resentenced in Shooting
« Reply #5 on: November 14, 2008, 12:01:24 PM »
Considering that the doper was known to routienly go armed (an unarmwed Mexican dope dealer is a dead dope dealer) , obviously purjred himself in court, makes this vendictiveness of the judicial  inexplicable to me. Had they killed the SOB, they'd have been better off.
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Re: Second Ex-Border Agent Resentenced in Shooting
« Reply #6 on: November 14, 2008, 01:18:08 PM »
This case has been so jacked from the start. They say justice is equal for everyone but not for those two it seems.
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Re: Second Ex-Border Agent Resentenced in Shooting
« Reply #7 on: November 14, 2008, 04:47:30 PM »
Quote from: TxRadioguy on November 14, 2008, 11:48:00 AM
I see him doing in in January sometime around the 18th or 19th.

To quote somebody up stream "I doubt he will"

Bush has to go through the rest of his life with SS trying to stop code pinko from "arresting" him, he isn't going to rock the boat anymore then it already is.  I think GWB is just going to go quietly into the night.
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Re: Second Ex-Border Agent Resentenced in Shooting
« Reply #8 on: November 14, 2008, 05:22:30 PM »
Quote from: Rebel on November 14, 2008, 07:49:58 AM
If Bush doesn't pardon Ramos and Compean, I have no use for him.
I don't think he is going to.  The two were charged because Mexico wanted it.  Bush, McCainez, Grahmnesty, all puppets of the Mexican government.

As for the Democratics, they will side with anyone as long as it hurts America in some way.
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Re: Second Ex-Border Agent Resentenced in Shooting
« Reply #9 on: November 14, 2008, 05:24:02 PM »
This entire case has been such a travesty of justice.  Even if these fellows were guilty of this, it was their first offense and the drug smuggler was not killed; why such a harsh sentence for both of them?  Bush needs to pardon them....it might help to make up for some of the terrible decisions he has made as President.  At least he should go out doing something worthwhile.  JMHO
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Re: Second Ex-Border Agent Resentenced in Shooting
« Reply #10 on: November 16, 2008, 05:52:41 PM »
Quote from: Thor on November 14, 2008, 11:27:00 AM
Bush has had ample time to pardon those two men. He hasn't. I doubt he will.

Bush is a RINO, plain and simple.  Policy wise he's almost indistinguishable from the old school dems. :banghead:
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Re: Second Ex-Border Agent Resentenced in Shooting
« Reply #11 on: November 18, 2008, 01:46:58 PM »
aCTUALLY, NO, THAT WAS THE PERSICUTOR'S TAKE. Which the jury halfassed bought. Fact is that they did not know the guy was hit, their "Supervisor" was on the scene, and did not require that they do the "normal" reporting procedure.

This was, as far as I'm concerned, injustice. Has the WELL ARMED drug smuggler been KILLED outright all the correct post discharge procedure would have been followed, and it would have been ruled a "good" shoot, not a crime.
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Re: Second Ex-Border Agent Resentenced in Shooting
« Reply #12 on: November 18, 2008, 02:22:56 PM »
I'll bet he pardons Marion Jones though.
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Re: Second Ex-Border Agent Resentenced in Shooting
« Reply #13 on: November 20, 2008, 12:13:56 PM »
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Ramos, Compean Commutation under Review by U.S. Pardon Attorney

(CNSNews.com) – In the waning days of the Bush administration, the Department of Justice (DOJ) is mulling whether to recommend a commutation for the two former Border Patrol agents jailed for more than a decade each for shooting a Mexican drug smuggler in the buttocks.
 
The case is now before the DOJ’s Pardon Attorney Donald Rodgers. The Office of Pardon Attorney works in consultation with the attorney general’s office to assist the president, who has sole power of clemency in federal cases under the Constitution.
 
Ultimately, it is the president’s call regardless of what the Office of Pardon Attorney recommends.
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