Posted on 01/15/2009 8:34:40 AM PST by IbJensen
He screwed up.
Bush may love him but nobody else does.
Again, I have no information on that issue, but I would bet that if you actually went to where he lives, and asked around, that Sutton and his family are solid, his church is solid, his friends are solid, and that he is quite unaware that you and all of your friends hate him so much.
You don't see him or his friends here anymore but early on he had people who must have been on his staff trying to argue his case.
They didn't succeed because they were depending on the testimony of a dope dealer that he got shot by cops while transporting dope.
People here agitated to have the dope dealer picked up and prosecuted for a later crime ~ one which he committed while Sutton was using him as a witness against Campeon and Ramos.
Oh, yes, Sutton knows he's despised ~ he's also quite an evil little twit who knows he did wrong. Man's not fit to be a prosecutor and probably not fit to be a lawyer.
Actually, most of the people here agitated for the dope dealer to be arrested and charged for the first drug-smuggling incident.
Unfortunately, the two agents who were supposed to catch him let him escape, and then couldn't identify him in a lineup or provide enough information to put the man at the scene. Of course, telling that they had shot the man would have made it much easier to identify him, but once they hid that information there was no way it could be used against the man in court later.
Eventually, Sutton was able to get Davila on a different charge, and now the guy is in jail where he belongs. And he never got a dime of money for any "lawsuit" that was threatened, just treatment for his injuries from the shooting that the agents didn't report.
Sutton had every right to be pissed at the agents. He learned about a shooting from the guy who was SHOT, rather than from the chain of command.
I can't imagine Sutton was trying to make a deal to do talk radio. I guess you mean he went on some of the anti-Sutton shoes to try to explain his position, and was unable to do so. If you think a man's life is defined by how he does on a talk show, then maybe you are correct.
His being shot was not a problem. Guy lives in Mexico. People in the dope business get shot there all the time.
It's a stretch to argue that the border agents hit him.
The only evidence that this particular narcotrafficante didn't have a gun is his own claim ~ and there's no reason anyone should ever believe a narcotrafficante about anything.
Sutton's case was off target (go after the narcotrafficantes, not the border agents), and ill-grounded.
That leads all rational people to ask why Sutton wanted to do this ~ certainly had nothing to do with the power and majesty of the law.
My point about the shooting in this thread was that if they had reported the shooting, then finding the man with the agent’s bullet in him would have been strong physical evidence linking the man to the crime scene.
But since they didn’t report it, trying to use it at trial would be fruitless. Ramos would be on the witness stand testifying that they shot the guy, and the defense would tear him apart about the failure to report the shooting, and noting that Ramos could have shot the guy anywhere at any time, since there was no record of the shooting.
Remember, the only reason we know Davila was at the scene that day is because Davila testified that he was there. Neither Ramos nor Compean could identify him, they didn’t find any conclusive prints on the van, and they didn’t aprehend him there.
So there was no way we’d ever prosecute him for the drug smuggling — the bullet is the only physical evidence we had tying him to the scene, and that only works if you know he was shot at the scene.
If I'd been the boss here I'd sent both of these guys for remedial weapons training. There was no excuse for missing this puke.
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