Calm down. I have no ax to grind here. The facts in this case are fairly well known. Agents shot a drug smuggler trying to flee back into Mexico. Or put more simply - an agent shot a criminal who refused to stop for law enforcement.
Why are these agents in prison? OK, a jury put them there. Juries can make mistakes as we saw with OJ. The Constitution provides the ability for Presidents to remedy cases where juries make mistakes. This was one of them. President Bush should exercise his Constitutional right to remedy this wrong.
Prove to me that the jury made a mistake. If the jury made a mistake, there is an appeals process to uncover the error. A pardon is not warranted here.
Let’s be honest, the only reason everyone is behind Ramos and Compean is because immigration has become a hypersenstitive issue, and some folks are so blinded that they don’t think anyone should ever punished for anything they did to a Mexican.
Sutton’s crime here has nothing to with justice, but everything to do with landing on the wrong side (to some) of the immigration debate.