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President-elect Obama already getting pressure to pardon the border agents

By Douglas A. Berman

Regular readers may recall all the controversies stirred up the prosecution and sentencing of former border agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean.  As detailed here, there has been a bipartisan call for their sentences to be commuted, and I am hoping (though not optimistic) that Ramos and Compean might get some sentencing justice from President George Bush as he packs up his desk at the White House. Interestingly, as detailed in this local article, even 10 weeks before he can lay claim to the presidential clemency power, President-elect Barack Obama is getting public pressure to help out the border agents: U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo is asking President-Elect Barack Obama to pardon two border patrol agents who were convicted in the 2005 shooting an unarmed drug smuggler and trying to cover up the crime...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on November 10, 2008 (boomark / email).