Posted on 04/17/2008 4:58:43 PM PDT by anymouse
A Mexican national who was shot by two Border Patrol agents but later was charged with smuggling marijuana is expected to plead guilty to those charges today in federal court in El Paso, Texas, The Washington Times has learned.
Osvaldo Aldrete Davila, whose testimony against Border Patrol Agents Ignacio "Nacho" Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean led to their conviction in March 2006, was apprehended by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) last year at the international port of entry in El Paso, after witnesses identified him in a second drug-smuggling operation.
Ramos and Compean are serving 11 and 12 years, respectively.
"He decided to take the plea," said a source close to the case who asked not to be identified because of the sensitivity of the case and ongoing appeals of the two border agents. "He admitted to the two loads. Davila is looking at six to 10 years."
Court records show that Aldrete Davila is scheduled to plead guilty at the federal courthouse in El Paso at 3 p.m. local time.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Murderers do less time than that. It's an outrage.
A 2nd drug smuggling episode that would have shattered Sutton’s star witness testimony, if it had been relayed to the jury.
You are right. Of course the argument is that Ramos and Compean didn’t know he was a drug smuggler and therefore such evidence could not be used by the defense. Those that argue this, believe that it’s proper jurisprudence to deny the defense the ability to argue that Aldrete was a career criminal while the prosecution is allowed to lie through their teeth and claim that Aldrete was just a poor victim of circumstance just trying to earn a little money for his mother. The “reasonable person” element was violated by the prosecution.
Relax Sutton, you're safe for the time being.
Six to ten years.
An outrage. If Bush doesn’t pardon Ramos and Compean, there is no justice.
If Bush doesn’t pardon Ramos and Compean, there is no justice.
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Then there is no justice ,, Bush continues to smirk about his border policy and tell the American people to pack fudge ,, Sutton is in the clear hiding his deception in the haze of beaurocratic incompetance and will be presumably until the Bush term is over ,, and after letting Compean and Ramos sit in jail for a few years Bush sure put his messsage across loud and clear,, Can the Judge reviewing the evidence at C&R’s appeal take this into consideration? ,, He’s been sitting on a decision for over 4 months.. Did he know this deal was in the works?
Lou Dobbs had the audacity to have Johnny Satan on today. He’s as bad as Janet Margulia or any other Communist reconquista Dobbs seems to love having on.
Ping!
Um, no, make that the second one he got caught on. And you can bet if he gets convicted, he'll have all sorts of post tramatic episodes and complications from the shooting which will cost the taxpayers.
The fact that our tax dollars are paying for the incarceration of Compean and Ramos is itself a travesty.
I noticed on our income tax we could donate a dollar to the presidential campaign but I didn’t see anything on there to deny the dollar until the a presient releases them.
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I predict he will be remanded into Mexican custody and be free as bird well within 18 months. By copping a plea, Osvaldo has done some very powerful people a big favor.
I recall the hundreds of posts here at FR saying he wasn't a "smuggler," just a poor "mule" -- totally unbelievable given what facts we do know.
KennyBunk:If this had gone to trial, old Osvaldo would have been wide open to questions about his connections with the BP, namely the mysterious René Sánchez.
And his connection with the Juarez cartel.
Oops... trying to save bandwidth comgining my posts and messed it up by forgetting to ping ya! (See above)
combining.
I give up. Long day.
Thanks for the ping.
Totally unbelievable on its face value. I doubt "professional" drug dealers would entrust such a load to a rank amateur. I think the trial testimony points to a long relationship with the drug trade. That "chance" meeting Davila had with Rene Sanchez in Reynosa, Mx in 2004 is really fishy.
He is still smearing Ramos and Compean, saying that they had destroyed his case against Davila. He neglects to explain how they did that, since they captured the van with the 700+ lbs. of drugs and they visually saw Davila escaping. And Sutton shows no remorse that his incompetence allowed Davila to continue to run drugs, on a pass provided by Sutton's office, during the trial phase.
Sutton has apparently done the same thing with Davila that he did in the “House of Death” debacle; he settles so that there will be no open court testimony that will show the corruption of the Sutton operation. Sutton claimed there was no deal, but Davila only got 8-10 years [less than the agents who attempted to apprehend him!] and yet I heard he was eligible for much more. Smells like a deal to me.
It is generally recognized that Sutton's prosecutors lied in court and tried to cover up the extent of Davila’s drug involvement. Gee, lying and cover up? Isn't that what he charged the Agents with? Guess it is okay for Sutton to lie and cover up, but the US Border Agents better not try it.
If Johnny Sutton is so concerned with corruption, I think he should first start looking in his own office!
A drug smuggling event that Sutton was hiding from the jury by pretending it was “being investigated”. Like hell. Sutton is as dirty as Mike Nifong, and he belongs in prison.
“I recall the hundreds of posts here at FR saying he wasn’t a “smuggler,” just a poor “mule” — totally unbelievable given what facts we do know.”
Yeah, where are Osvaldo the Smuggler’s putos? How come they aren’t here defending him?
Sutton could care less if Ramos and Compean ‘spoiled his case against Osvaldo’. And that’s because Osvaldo never was Sutton’s target. The two Border Patrol agents were the only people he was interested in sending to prison. And he intended to do that no matter how much he had to perjure himself in the process.
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This has been Sutton's pattern right along. His grand schemes to be the next Elliot Ness crumble because of ethical missteps and then he throws the good guys to the wolves and pleads down the bad guys, all to cover his own ineptness.
Of course there is always the “Manchurian Candidate” theory. Or should I say the “Mexican Candidate”?!
What really gripes my tail is the fact that those BP guys will do more prison time than a Jap POW camp commander (of those we didn’t hang) who murdered hundreds of our G.I.’s - Thanks a lot Dubya!
Thanks!
“”He decided to take the plea,””
That’s good. And if Sutton had prosecuted him instead of border agents, he’d have pled that one too, instead he got a border pass and $800,000 (IIRC).
“Lou Dobbs had the audacity to have Johnny Satan on today. He’s as bad as Janet Margulia or any other Communist reconquista Dobbs seems to love having on.”
No, sorry, that won’t fly. No one would know about this or most immigration problems if not for Lou Dobbs. You’re barking at the wrong guy, or are you for open borders? No one has been harder on Sutton or defended Ramos and Compean more than Dobbs. As for his guests, I don’t know about you, but I want to know what my enemy is saying, or would you rather take someones word for it?
“By copping a plea, Osvaldo has done some very powerful people a big favor. “
Oh, my goodness, you’re so right. How could I forget Sutton and his Mexican House of death episode. Don’t want that coming out in trial.
But, it turns out a judge has leeway to offer a more lenient sentence to a person who cooperates with the Government. Since, apparently, it was the same judge as in the first trial, one has to wonder what kind of cooperation was expected from Davila? Was it not to spill the beans on the unethical way Sutton handled the Ramos and Compean trial?
And the two fine law enforcement officers that originally tried to apprehend him are rotting in jail. Bush tries to unseat Carter as worst president?
What a dirty double-dealing place the Southwest has become as the result of this invasion. Sutton of course, wants the absolute minimum of light shed here. God only knows what the heck is going on behind the scenes in the appeals court.
One possible explanation: Sutton is working around the inevitable release of R and C, and building a sort of post-facto case against them so that his office can escape ... or at least mitigate... any consequences in the civil actions that are sure to follow.
So, where's the appeal verdict?
I think one of the reasons that the Pope has received such an enthusiastic reception is that he is a man of principle and character. Whether one is Catholic or not, you have to admire the guy.
And his timing could not be more fortuitous. Right in the middle of a political campaign so fraught with lies that most Americans don't believe what the candidates say anymore. [If they ever did!]
G’night, KB.
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