Posted on 07/19/2007 2:51:43 PM PDT by rob88888
In hearings held this week Sutton blamed the decision to prosecute the border agents and to pursue an excessive punishment on his superiors at the Justice Department. He also attempted to explain his use of the federal statute which normally applies to the use of a firearm in a violent crime by bringing up various other examples of law officers prosecuted under the statute, but all of the examples differed significantly from the case in question, because Osvaldo Aldrete Davila (the drug smuggler) was attempting to evade arrest. In the other cases where the statute has been used which Sutton himself selected as examples, the victims were cooperating with the abusive officers. Sutton also raises issues about the agents careless handling of the case. They actually let Aldrete escape (his wound didn't stop him from running away), and treated the encounter as if it weren't significant and didn't bother to report the shooting. Clearly they had reason to not want to be upfront with their superiors, based on how they ended up being treated.
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“Clearly they had reason to not want to be upfront with their superiors, based on how they ended up being treated.”
Plus somebody’s reefer that was expected to be delivered unmolested had to be confiscated.....commissions and payoffs might well have been lost, too.
Ping and BTTT
Great Blog and the truth is coming out!!!!
Disqualify them from any further jury service.
ping
Deport them.
That ought to have been a headsup to someone in Washington to check through Sutton's travel vouchers going back over the last 5 years.
Things to look for: (1) how far from the airport to home, (2) how much spent on taxis around "noon" or 5 PM (mealtimes), with reference to where he was at the time, (3) recurring visits while in transit to spots where he had no current casework.
All of these things might seem to be minor, but a recurring pattern will frequently reveal the individual doing them does not have sufficient integrity to be doing the job he's paid for.
Oh, yeah #3 is almost always a situation where the traveler is diverting from the most expeditious route to stop off and see a girlfriend (his wife doesn't know about).
I'd kind of like to know where he parks his car when he goes to work. Is it in a designated spot at a federal courthouse or other government building, or has his office rented supplemental parking in a private garage? Then, what vehicle is he parking there ~ is it his own or is it owned by the govenment.
So many things to check, so much time to do the job, so much, so much ~ and in the end we can find out if Sutton is a crook (which I suspect) or merely an honest simpleton.
Why hasn’t Johnny Sutton been fired? Why wasn’t he among the US attorneys to be canned? Clearly, he is a roadblock to America’s border security.
“So, what do we do about the Grand Jury that true billed this case and the jury who convicted?”
Send them back home.
maybe find out what they were told or what they were instructed before they made their decision.
Because he's doing his boss's bidding. Being a USA has virtually nothing to do with equally enforcing (or even upholding) the law. It is more about prosecuting whatever the DOJ deems appropriate.
DOJ - what a misnomer.
I think we need to remember the jury didn’t know the mandatory sentence.. for all they knew, these guys would get a slap on the wrist. Read the court transcripts.. it’s easy to sit here and complain, but the view is much different in a jury box.
Here are all the trial transcripts:
http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/txw/press_releases/Compean-Ramos/index.html
The rule of thumb with Grand Juries is “The prosecutor can get them [the Grand Jury] to indict a ham sandwich.”
Specifically related to Jury instructions before finding, they are in this section of the transcript:
http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/txw/press_releases/Compean-Ramos/Volume%2015.pdf
It only seems this way because of case loads, prosecutors generally don’t bring in half-assed cases, they bring in the ones that they believe they can successfully prosecute based on the evidence.
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