Too Little Too Late in My Opinion! these Two Have Been Brutally Beatin in Prison, Fired and Taken Unjustly From their Families. I Hope they Both Get Filthy Rich off of this Ordeal. Johnny Sutton (the asshole behind this) Needs a Good and thorough Ass F@ckin.



On his last full day in office, President Bush commuted the controversial sentences of two former Border Patrol agents convicted of shooting a Mexican drug runner in 2005.

The imprisonment of Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean had sparked outcry from critics who said the men were just doing their jobs and were punished too harshly. They had been sentenced to 11- and 12-year sentences, respectively.

Their sentences will now expire on March 20 of this year.

Ramos and Compean were sentenced in connection with the shooting of Osvaldo Aldrete Davila, who was shot in the buttocks while trying to flee along the Texas border. He admitted smuggling several hundred pounds of marijuana on the day he was shot and pleaded guilty last year to drug charges related to two other smuggling attempts.

Nearly the entire congressional delegation from Texas and other lawmakers from both sides of the political aisle pleaded with Bush to grant them clemency.

The border agents argued during their trials that they believed Davila was armed and that they shot him in self defense. The prosecutor in the case said there was no evidence linking the smuggler to the van that contained the marijuana. The prosecutor also said the border agents didn't report the shooting and tampered with evidence by picking up several spent shell casings.

The agents were fired after their convictions on several charges, including assault with a dangerous weapon and with serious bodily injury, violation of civil rights and obstruction of justice. All their convictions, except obstruction of justice, were upheld on appeal.

Bush has been cautious in his use of pardon powers, and particularly careful when it comes to commutations of prison terms. A pardon is an official forgiveness of a crime (typically requested at least five years after the completion of a prison term); a commutation is a reduction of sentence.

Before Monday, Bush had granted 189 pardons and nine commutations. By comparison, President Clinton granted 396 pardons and 61 commutations, many on his last day in office. President Reagan granted 393 pardons and 13 commutations.

he should have pardoned them

and given them a medal


and people wonder why the crime rate is so high

WERE WAS THE ACLU???????

Agreed and that's a Good Question!

At least they are out....And the ACLU ..hahahahahahahaha Fight on the side of RIGHT again hahahahahahahaha

They should have been pardoned. No, they shouldn't have been tried at all. The report done by the National Border Patrol Council is very damning...

http://rohrabacher.house.gov/UploadedFiles/NBPC%20rebuttal_to_sutton.pdf

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Okay, I'm not sure why the link isn't working...If you copy and paste it into the address bar, it works.