Border Patrol Agents Sentenced in El Paso

Former Border Patrol agents sentenced to prison (4:30 p.m.)
By Louie Gilot / El Paso Times
Article Launched:10/19/2006 04:23:32 PM MDT
The two former U.S. Border Patrol agents whose conviction of shooting a drug smuggler in the buttocks caused a national movement to free them were sentenced today.
Ignacio Ramos was given an 11-year sentence in prison -- a 10-year mandatory sentence for the assault with a deadly weapon charge, plus one year for the lesser charges. Jose Alonso Compean was given a 12-year sentence -- a 10-year mandatory sentence for the assault with a deadly weapon, plus two years for the lesser charges.

Ramos and Compean were found guilty of assault with serious bodily injury, assault with a deadly weapon, discharge of a firearm in relation to a crime of violence, a civil-rights charge and obstruction of justice in the Feb. 17, 2005, shooting of Osvaldo Aldrete Davila near Fabens.

U.S. District Judge Kathleen Cardone ruled that the two former agents will remain free until Jan. 17, when they must surrender themselves. But at that point, the judge could let them remain out on bond during the appeals process.

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Source, although I heard it on The Michael Reagan Show on XM166.
What kind of country do we live in that gives 4th Amendment Rights to an Illegal Alien?
I am not going to post what I really think, because I would be arrested for it. Let's just say I am thinking some very Dark Thoughts about the future of our once great Republic.

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