Too long? These people are being screwed and tattooed by BushCo. What did they get? 10 or 12 years each for shooting a professional drug smuggler?
I can't wait until Bush is forced to free these two and they hit the talk shows, unless of course they are beaten to death in prison first.
That may yet happen; look at what happened to Ramos when he first entered prison.
Frankly, I don't put much hope in Bush doing anything for them at this point.
As for the terms, Compean got one year and Ramos two but because their convictions involved using a gun they were subject to a ten year mandatory sentence.
And that is where most of the issue lies. Most, including me, do not believe LEO’s should be subject to this law in the course of their jobs, unless, they were involved in some sort of premeditated corruption. This law was intended for the real bad guys but when it was written they did not include language to exempt cops.
What are they going to say? “we really didn’t mean to pickup those shell casings, dispose of them and then lie to our supervisors about the shooting”?
R&C were convicted on the actions they took to cover this up. They got one and two years for that, the mandatory ten was, well mandatory. IMO the judge did what she could to minimize the sentence (they could have gotten much more time) but her hands were tied regarding the mand10. The secondary issue is why the Justice Dept. pushed for the mand10 and all I can think of is they wanted to make an example, which I think was regrettable.
I would bet Ramos picked his up as well (since they couldn’t find it with a metal detector later) and the only reason Compean had to admit it because he showed them to another agent and asked him to comb the area and pick up any ones he missed.