Judge sets $100K bail in fatal Harding High crash (illegal alien)

pioneer press ^ | 7-9-12 | Danya P. Hernandez and Mara H. Gottfried

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If she could give her life for the 16-year-old girl killed last week outside a St. Paul high school, she would. Those tearful words came Monday, July 9, from the sister of the driver charged in last week's crash.

"If God would accept my life instead of hers, I would give it," Leticia Viveros said outside a Ramsey County courtroom after her brother made his first appearance.

A family friend of Clarisse Grime, the girl who died near Harding High School, embraced Viveros, and both women sobbed. Carlos Viveros-Colorado's attorney, Alberto Miera, also expressed his apologies for the 50-year-old man, saying, "He is truly sorry."

The Ramsey County attorney's office on Friday charged Viveros-Colorado with criminal vehicular homicide in the Thursday afternoon crash.

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The woman, Viveros, approached officers at the scene, saying she came to find out what happened, the complaint said. She told officers her brother is undocumented and in the United States illegally.

Grime's family friend thanked Viveros for her actions when she hugged her outside the courtroom Monday. "I'm proud of you," Marta Kifle said. "You tell the truth to the police. That's a lot to ask."

Records show Viveros-Colorado has never had a Minnesota driver's license. But Miera said his client has tried to be as responsible as he could under the circumstances -- he could not get a license because he is an undocumented immigrant.

However, he obtained car insurance, which many undocumented immigrants don't do because they don't want to bring attention to themselves, Miera pointed out.

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Wonder what type of car insurance he obtained?

He also had a prior DUI. But his “leg went numb” this time. Guess he cured real fast from that.

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When your first action on arrival is to break the law on how you stayed in our country, I find it unbelievable you're really worried about being a law-abiding citizen. (he also has a 2001 DUI and deported once before... I wonder who he voted for?) FWIW,both St.Paul and MPLS mayors pride themselves on being "sanctuary" cities...

After his 2001 conviction, the federal agency then known as Immigration and Naturalization Service ordered Viveros-Colorado to leave the country and hedid so voluntarily, Miera said. He returned to the U.S. about two years later, he said.

"voluntary deportation"? WTF?

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"If God would accept my life instead of hers, I would give it," Leticia Viveros said outside a Ramsey County courtroom after her brother made his first appearance.

Hopefully the justice system will meet you halfway on that, Leticia. About 25 years in prison, if you really want to pay up.

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and you thought Mutual Assured Destruction was long gone as a gubamental strategery.. it’s just been retooled a bit..

everyday, a US citizen dies at the hands or because of the actions of an illegal.
Congre$$ shrugs.
O gives ‘em healthcare and cheap tuition.

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The man had already been deported once.
He snuck back in, and killed a legal resident.

Toss him, his sister, his lawyer, his employer and the person who sold him auto insurance under the jail, and I may consider “forgiving” their transgressions.

I don't want to be the next statistic!

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“If God would accept my life instead of hers, I would give it,”

I say we take her up on that offer. Someone get a rope.

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States: “Help Us, Criminal Illegals Swamp Budgets, Prisons”

The General Accounting Office estimates that as of 2009 there were currently about 350,000 criminal aliens in U.S. prisons, “the majority from Mexico.” At $30,000 per year, per inmate, that’s $11 billion annually, with most of the costs born by the states.

While not all of the criminal aliens are here illegally, criminal illegals are putting a strain on budgets, especially in the states with large illegal immigration populations such as Arizona, Colorado, California, Florida, New York, and Texas.

Not coincidentally, many of those same states are facing the largest budget shortfalls for fiscal year 2011 and 2012, including New York and California. Some estimate state budget shortfalls of over $100 billion in 2012 across state governments in the U.S.

In California, it’s estimated that prisoners who are illegal immigrants cost the state at least $1 billion per year just to keep them in prison.

Across the country, states’ governments are shouldering both the growing financial burden of keeping criminal illegal aliens in jail and the growing law enforcement burden of securing the community from the crimes of illegal aliens in the face of hostility from the executive branch of the federal government.

Corrections.com trumpets the problem as “Foreign Inmates Busting Budgets.”

http://finance.townhall.com/columnists/johnransom/2011/06/10/states_help_us,_criminal_illegals_swamp_budgets,_prisons

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hen your first action on arrival is to break the law on how you stayed in our country, I find it unbelievable you're really worried about being a law-abiding citizen. (he also has a 2001 DUI and deported once before... I wonder who he voted for?) FWIW,both St.Paul and MPLS mayors pride themselves on being "sanctuary" cities...

After his 2001 conviction, the federal agency then known as Immigration and Naturalization Service ordered Viveros-Colorado to leave the country and hedid so voluntarily, Miera said. He returned to the U.S. about two years later, he said.

"voluntary deportation"? WTF?

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Wonder what type of car insurance he obtained?

I just called Geico and State Farm. Both said they would not issue any policy to me without a drivers license, or even with a suspended license. She is lying, or he committed identity fraud of some kind.

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The perp's attorney, Alberto O. Miera Jr. was suspended for misconduct (IIRC, for some kind of homosexual soliciting) a decade or so ago. Seems he's found another niche to exploit: illegals. IN RE: Petition for DISCIPLINARY ACTION AGAINST Alberto O. MIERA IN RE: Petition for DISCIPLINARY ACTION AGAINST Alberto O. MIERA, Jr., an Attorney at Law of the State of Minnesota. No. C3-97-2009. -- March 11, 1998 ORDER WHEREAS, the Director of the Office of Lawyers Professional Responsibility has filed a petition and a supplemental petition for disciplinary action alleging that respondent Alberto O. Miera, Jr., has committed professional misconduct warranting public discipline, namely trust account books and records deficiencies and noncooperation with the Director's office in their investigation of these matters;  and WHEREAS, respondent admits the allegations of the petitions, waives his rights pursuant to Rule 14, Rules on Lawyers Professional Responsibility (RLPR), and has entered into a stipulation with the Director wherein they jointly recommend that the appropriate discipline is a public reprimand and unsupervised probation for 2 years on the following conditions: a.  Respondent shall cooperate fully with the Director's office in its efforts to monitor compliance with this probation and promptly respond to the Director's correspondence by the due date.   Respondent shall cooperate with the Director's investigation of any allegations of unprofessional conduct which may come to the Director's attention.   Upon the Director's request, respondent shall provide authorization for release of information and documentation to verify compliance with the terms of this probation. b. Respondent shall abide by the Minnesota Rules of Professional Conduct. c. Respondent shall maintain law office and trust account books and records in compliance with Rule 1.15, MRPC, and LPRB Amended Opinion No. 9. These books and records include the following:  cash receipts journal, cash disbursements journal, client subsidiary ledger, checkbook register, monthly trial balances, monthly trust account reconciliation, bank statements, canceled checks, duplicate deposit slips and bank reports of interest, service charges and interest payments to the Lawyer Trust Account Board.   Such books and records shall be made available to the Director within 30 days of the approval of this stipulation and thereafter shall be made available to the Director at such intervals as he deems necessary to determine compliance;  and WHEREAS, this court has independently reviewed the record and agrees that the jointly recommended disposition is appropriate, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that Alberto O. Miera, Jr., is publicly reprimanded and is placed on 2 years' unsupervised probation on the conditions set out above.   The Director is awarded $900 in costs pursuant to Rule 24, RLPR.       BY THE COURT:       /s/ Kathleen A. Blatz       /s/ Kathleen A. Blatz       /s/ Chief Justice

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that “Lawyers Board of Professional Responsibility” is really tough on their own...(sarc)

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Cocaine dealer avoids jail by pretending he is illegal Mexican immigrant and gets DEPORTED instead

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2057465/Cocaine-dealer-avoids-jail-pretending-illegal-Mexican-immigrant-gets-DEPORTED-instead.html

this is what Amy Senser should have done.