[curiosity]

No they are not. Osvaldo Aldrete Davila is as guilty as sin.

As another reader pointed out, all three parties are guilty of a crime. Davila is guilty of smuggling drugs. Compean and Ramos are guilty of shooting an unarmed man in the back, lying about it, and tampering with evidence.

Read Mark Brewer's brief to the Fifth Circuit before you shoot off your mouth

Who exactly is Mark Brewer, and why exactly should I take his opinion as authoritative?

I've looked at the facts for myself, thank you very much. I don't need some yahoo to interpret them for me.

[Cyropaedia]

J. Mark Brewer is Attorney. He is not some "yahoo". And he knows far more about the law than you do. Go back and actually read his brief. As he shows, Sutton re-wrote the statutes to facilitate the indictment and prosecution of the agents. As Brewer points out, the Courts have ruled that prosecutors cannot do that. For starters, the instructions to the Jury were in error, because the statutes in question were in error or deliberately misstated.

As far as Aldrete Davila is concerned, he has proven that he simply cannot be trusted. At this point he is probably the only person who still insists he was "unarmed". Even Sutton himself probably now has doubts regarding Osvaldo's story. If Johnny had to do it over again there's now way in hell he would have actually given the smuggler an immunity agreement. No way.

[mjaneangels@aolcom]

“Compean and Ramos are guilty of shooting an unarmed man in the back, lying about it, and tampering with evidence.”

What proof is there that Davila was unarmed other than his testimony?

What evidence is there that Ramos tampered with evidence? What evidence?

Specify the lies told.