Transcripts of Trial - Border Agents Compean and Ramos

DOJ - U.S. Attorney's Office (Johnny Sutton) ^ | February 13, 2007

[calcowgirl]

The complete (I think) transcript was filed with the Court on Friday and entered in the Court record yesterday. The DOJ is hosting the transcripts on their website in a series of 18 PDF Files. They range in size from 5 pages to over 300 pages, covering pretrial matters, sentencing, as well as testimony.

The transcripts are linked at the site above, as well as most of the press releases issued by the U.S. Attorney office on this matter.

I am setting up this thread (in chat) as a place for us junkies can comment on the testimony and to post any revelations anyone might find. Have at it!!!!

VOLUME I: http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/txw/press_releases/Compean-Ramos/Volume%201.pdf

VOLUME II: http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/txw/press_releases/Compean-Ramos/Volume%202.pdf

VOLUME III: http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/txw/press_releases/Compean-Ramos/Volume%203.pdf

VOLUME IV: http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/txw/press_releases/Compean-Ramos/Volume%204.pdf

VOLUME V: http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/txw/press_releases/Compean-Ramos/Volume%205.pdf

VOLUME VI: http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/txw/press_releases/Compean-Ramos/Volume%206.pdf

VOLUME VII: http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/txw/press_releases/Compean-Ramos/Volume%207.pdf

VOLUME VIII: http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/txw/press_releases/Compean-Ramos/Volume%208.pdf

VOLUME IX: http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/txw/press_releases/Compean-Ramos/Volume%209.pdf

VOLUME X: http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/txw/press_releases/Compean-Ramos/Volume%2010.pdf

VOLUME XI: http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/txw/press_releases/Compean-Ramos/Volume%2011.pdf

VOLUME XII: http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/txw/press_releases/Compean-Ramos/Volume%2012.pdf

VOLUME XIII: http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/txw/press_releases/Compean-Ramos/Volume%2013.pdf

VOLUME XIV: http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/txw/press_releases/Compean-Ramos/Volume%2014.pdf

VOLUME XV: http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/txw/press_releases/Compean-Ramos/Volume%2015.pdf

VOLUME XVI: http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/txw/press_releases/Compean-Ramos/Volume%2016.pdf

VOLUME XVII: http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/txw/press_releases/Compean-Ramos/Volume%2017.pdf

VOLUME XVIII: http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/txw/press_releases/Compean-Ramos/Volume%2018.pdf
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[calcowgirl]

Ping!

[raybbr]

Thanks for your hard work. I can't spend too much time on these threads. My blood boils and when the quislings show up I wish I could find out who they really are and reveal them for the traitors they are.

[CindyDawg]

book mark

[woofie]

On page 37 in Volume V, third paragraph,it says, and I quote:"Its Bush's fault"

[truthkeeper]

Thanks for all your hard work on this one.

[Cyropaedia]

Good work calcowgirl!

[Ladycalif]

PING

[stephenjohnbanker]

Thanks, Lady : )

Good work, it is appreciated.

[FLOutdoorsman]

Thanks.

Here is a article talking about some of the transcripts.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1784417/posts

[stephenjohnbanker]

I know how you feel. Best to ignore the fools.

[truthkeeper]

I just read up to page 10 on the first one and have to take a break for a while. My God, these people are wordy, aren't they?

[calcowgirl]

Thanks to everyone for the thanks.

Here's a tip to folks wanted to scan a few files.

The testimony appears to start in file 6, but on most of the big files if you scan to the 2nd to last page, there is an index. Here are some starting points, in general:

file 1 Pretrial Matters
file 2 Pretrial Matters
file 3 Pretrial Matters
file 4 Status Conference
file 5 Pretrial Matters
file 6 Opening Statements at page pg. 183
file 6 Witness Rene Sanchez at pg. 225
file 6 Witness Christopher Sanchez at pg. 263
file 7 Witness Christopher Sanchez at pg. 3
file 7 Witness/Smuggler Aldrete-Davila at pg. 68
file 8 Witness/Smuggler Aldrete-Davila at pg. 17

I'm just trying to get a feel of the content before reading any of it.

[calcowgirl]

I got a copy of Juarez's testimony yesterday and reading it is painful, lol.

I scanned another one where the Prosecutor slipped and kept referring to Aldrete-Davila as the Defendant (as it should have been!)

[Cyropaedia]

Kanof actually wants us to believe that Compean and Ramos saw Aldrete-Davila on the ground, bleeding, unable to escape and they simply holstered their weapons, turned around and just left him there....??? That makes absolutely no sense at all. That's just pure make believe.

[calcowgirl]

Other Kanof themes said to be popular and repetitive:

• "shot in the back"
• "just wanted to go home"
• .... etc.

I haven't had a chance to delve in too deeply. I'm on information overload! lol

[Kenny Bunk]

Time for these fellows to have some real lawyering. That takes some real money. Has their union set up a fund for them yet?

We need to back these apellants up, and start holding their attorneys payable and accountable.

[Kenny Bunk]

http://www.nbpc.net/ That's the union's website. Check it out and the funding mechanisms they have set up.

[Arizona Carolyn]

Thanks ccg..I've been slowly wading through Agent Sanchez testimony. His testimony really bothers me. So many things he didn't tape or record and remembers from "memory" and then says conflicts with written statements.

It bothers me that they walked the "vega" and didn't find bullets or blood and yet he was convinced the magic bullet came from Compeans service weapon. The parts (so far) that bothers me even more is the following exchange under cross on page 65 +

BY MS. STILLINGER:
4 Q. You told me, when we talked last week -- and I'm talking
5 about talking in court, when I was questioning you last week.
6 You told me that you just found out about the $5 million claim
7 that Mr. Aldrete-Davila filed. I think you said you found out
8 sometime around May or June. Is that right?
9 A. I believe it was May.
10 Q. Okay. Did you know that Rene Sanchez had advised
11 Mr. Aldrete-Davila about that?
12 A. No, ma'am, I did not.
13 Q. Okay. Did you know that Rene Sanchez had talked to
14 Aldrete-Davila about immunity?
15 A. No, ma'am, I did not.
16 Q. Okay. And did you know that he found him a lawyer?
17 A. No, ma'am, I did not.
18 Q. Did you just find that out for the first time when
19 Aldrete-Davila testified last week?
20 A. Yes, ma'am.
21 Q. Okay. That's something that would have been
interesting
22 for you to know in your investigation, wouldn't it?
23 MS. KANOF: Objection, Your Honor, argumentative.

[calcowgirl]

It bothers me that they walked the "vega" and didn't find bullets or blood and yet he was convinced the magic bullet came from Compeans service weapon.

You know, your post here, and the thread on the Mexican consulate, just came together for me.

In the DHS-OIG Report of Investigation (ROI) it makes mention of the day that agents went to the site to look for bullets, including use of metal detectors. What didn't make sense was participation of one of the agencies involved, specifically the DSS:

On March 17, 2005, DHS OIG agents, OIA agents, BP El. Paso Sector Evidence Team (SET) members and U.S. Department of State, Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) agents, scoured the site of the shooting incident, using metal detectors to look for casings and any other detectable evidence, but no evidence of the shooting was found. Check out who DSS is here