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Did Botched Interpretation Jail Ramos and Compean?
Monday, January 22, 2007
Interesting development in the BP2 case as cited in a story posted on World Net Daily a short time ago. Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean were given mandatory jail sentences because they were charged under 18 U.S.C. Section 924(c). The WND article points out that the law was intended to apply to law enforcement officers only when they were committing crimes clearly outside of their official duties. Police officers have been charged with this before when they were committing crimes because the court ruled that no one is allowed to carry a gun while committing a crime.
Here is the text of the code they were charged under
If this law actually applied to this case, then the Court would have been mandated to give Ramos and Compean five years each for just having weapons in their possession; weapons the US government required them to carry. If that were the case, then how would Border Patrol Agents pursuing a suspected drug smuggler have been "a crime of violence or drug trafficking crime". Because the Agents fired, Johnny Sutton, the Prosecutor, said that the Court was mandated to sentence them to 10 years each.
The reason this code doesn't apply is because there was no crime of violence. The Agents were merely pursuing a dirty Mexican drug runner who ran when the Agents tried to apprehend him. No one in their right mind could connect the dots between a code intended to punish criminals committing crimes with guns and two Federal Agents pursuing a suspected criminal. I don't know about you, but people don't run from the cops unless they have something to hide. And although I don't know any dirty Mexican drug runners personally; I assume none of them leave home without heat. That would be like a woman going to the mall without plastic.
Walter B. Jones, a North Carolina Republican in the US House of Representatives, wrote a letter to Alberto Gonzalez on Oct. 11 2006 explaining how this code didn't apply in the BP2 case. I apologize to everyone for not picking this up earlier. I will be sure to call Sen. Bond and Sen. McCaskill from Missouri ASAP to enlighten them on this development since they haven't gotten around to addressing this issue yet. They must have been busy with more important things.
Here is the text of the code they were charged under
If this law actually applied to this case, then the Court would have been mandated to give Ramos and Compean five years each for just having weapons in their possession; weapons the US government required them to carry. If that were the case, then how would Border Patrol Agents pursuing a suspected drug smuggler have been "a crime of violence or drug trafficking crime". Because the Agents fired, Johnny Sutton, the Prosecutor, said that the Court was mandated to sentence them to 10 years each.
The reason this code doesn't apply is because there was no crime of violence. The Agents were merely pursuing a dirty Mexican drug runner who ran when the Agents tried to apprehend him. No one in their right mind could connect the dots between a code intended to punish criminals committing crimes with guns and two Federal Agents pursuing a suspected criminal. I don't know about you, but people don't run from the cops unless they have something to hide. And although I don't know any dirty Mexican drug runners personally; I assume none of them leave home without heat. That would be like a woman going to the mall without plastic.
Walter B. Jones, a North Carolina Republican in the US House of Representatives, wrote a letter to Alberto Gonzalez on Oct. 11 2006 explaining how this code didn't apply in the BP2 case. I apologize to everyone for not picking this up earlier. I will be sure to call Sen. Bond and Sen. McCaskill from Missouri ASAP to enlighten them on this development since they haven't gotten around to addressing this issue yet. They must have been busy with more important things.
Labels: border patrol
NY Post Reporter Lied To Get To Devlin
**1-22 Update**
Monday's Post-Dispatch Story
The New York Post could have a problem on its hands regarding the interview a day or so ago with Michael Devlin. This story from KSDK.com says that Devlin's lawyers are accusing the reporter of saying she was Devlin's friend in order to get in to talk with him.
Interesting note: Michael Devlin is being held apart from the common riffraff in the jail because people are worried the riffraff will hurt him. Agents Ramos and Compean (the Border Patrol 2) were sent to Federal Prison with much more dangerous riffraff because a judge ruled that there was no reason for them to be free during their appeals and that the jail didn't pose that much of a threat to them. Funny how our justice system works in the land of the free and the home of the brave. Ok, so that may have been a cheap shot, drawing a line between those two , but I am still upset and I run the show here.
Monday's Post-Dispatch Story
The New York Post could have a problem on its hands regarding the interview a day or so ago with Michael Devlin. This story from KSDK.com says that Devlin's lawyers are accusing the reporter of saying she was Devlin's friend in order to get in to talk with him.
Interesting note: Michael Devlin is being held apart from the common riffraff in the jail because people are worried the riffraff will hurt him. Agents Ramos and Compean (the Border Patrol 2) were sent to Federal Prison with much more dangerous riffraff because a judge ruled that there was no reason for them to be free during their appeals and that the jail didn't pose that much of a threat to them. Funny how our justice system works in the land of the free and the home of the brave. Ok, so that may have been a cheap shot, drawing a line between those two , but I am still upset and I run the show here.
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