Smuggler Shot by Agents to Serve Full Term
Tue, Jun 30, 2009 5:42 pm
Source: www.dallasnews.com
An admitted drug smuggler who was shot in the buttocks by U.S. Border Patrol agents must serve his entire 9 1/2-year prison term for smuggling marijuna, a federal appeals court has ruled.
The two former agents — whose case became a cause among conservatives complained the men were just doing their job — were convicted but had their sentences commuted by former President George W. Bush before he left office.
Osvaldo Aldrete Davila, who was shot by Jose Alonso Compean and Ignacio Ramos in February 2005 during a failed marijuana smuggling attempt, pleaded guilty last year to charges he twice smuggled marijuana into Texas several months after he was shot.
On Monday, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans upheld the sentence.
Aldrete was given immunity for the February 2005 smuggling effort during which he was shot, and testified against the men. He told jurors that he was unarmed and fleeing when Ramos and Compean fired on him.
Aldrete was later indicted on charges that he smuggled marijuana twice more several months after he was shot.
During a sentencing hearing, Aldrete said told U.S. District Judge Kathleen Cardone that he was not a career smuggler.
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treehunger
Jul 12 2009, 8:09 pm
colonel forbin
Jul 5 2009, 12:22 pm
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Jul 3 2009, 6:40 am
I agree .
treehugger
Jul 2 2009, 6:15 pm
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Jul 2 2009, 6:45 am
treehugger
Jul 1 2009, 3:30 pm
Then what are all the fuckin police gonna do?
treehugger
Jul 1 2009, 3:12 pm
175 trillion to rebuild the power grid alone? 1/2 the bridges ready to fall, 1/2 the water has e-coli, 1/2 the sewers and water mains already crumbles, etc. etc. etc.
And people don't want to pay taxes? Legalize the shit, tax the fuck out of it, 50% retail, 50% income tax on commercial sales (and you have to grow 2 acres of hemp or bamboo per acre of bud!) 0% on personal consumption (except sales tax on the seeds you bought at Home Depot) and quit fucking talkin about it.
Ban cigs, ban alcohol, ban coke, ban heroine, back that fake pot, ban that pot-pill, ban 90% of the meds they sell on t.v., ban 1/2 the construction products on the market that can be replaced with hemp, ban ignorant, dumb-ass, do fuckin nothing CONGRESS PEOPLE
Baltimore Fred
Jun 30 2009, 8:51 pm
gstlab3
Jun 30 2009, 8:27 pm
NcalWP
Jun 30 2009, 7:08 pm
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