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Former Border Patrol Agents' Convictions Largely Affirmed

By Shari Allison

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This is a Fifth Circuit decision, but it happened in El Paso, TX, right next door to me, so I'm including it here. The decision is available here.The Fifth Circuit yesterday mostly affirmed the convictions and sentences of former Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean, convicted of various crimes after they shot an unarmed drug smuggler as he ran back to Mexico (he succeeded in escaping, too). The Court affirmed the convictions for assault, discharge of a weapon in the commission of a crime of violence, and deprivation of civil rights, and reversed the convictions for tampering with an official proceeding. The agents were engaged in routine law enforcement near Fabens, TX, when they chased an alien drug smuggler in a van as he sped towards the border...continue to full post

Full post as published by Tenth Circuit Blog on July 29, 2008 (boomark / email).

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