News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Tuesday, December 04, 2007

Judge calls prosecuting ex-agents an overreaction

By Louie Gilot / El Paso Times

Article Launched: 12/04/2007 12:00:00 AM MST

Federal prosecutors may have overreacted in the case of two former El Paso Border Patrol agents convicted and sentenced to prison for shooting an admitted drug smuggler in the buttocks, an appeals court judge said Monday in New Orleans.

His comments renewed hopes that the agents' conviction would be overturned and gave more energy to a national movement working for their release.

Judge E. Grady Jolly, one of three judges from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals hearing the case of Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean, questioned whether the two agents would have been charged if they had reported the shooting.

"For some reason, this one got out of hand, it seems to me," Jolly said of the agents' prosecution.

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