Posted on 06/05/2014 4:53:42 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
When 43-year-old Silvester Padilla Romero from Tucson was caught at the U.S.-Mexico border with more than 545 pounds of marijuana in his truck, federal agents were quick to pass on his case.
A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent said that federal prosecutors would "decline such a case due to a medical condition that the driver of the vehicle containing the contraband was claiming to have."
It is unclear, however, what "condition" Padilla has, if any.
Nogales International reported that since federal prosecutors declined the case due to "a mental condition," Padilla was convicted in a local court instead. The probation officer in that case apparently saw no sign of such a condition.
The defendant is "in overall good health and is not currently taking medication [and] has never been diagnosed with any mental health illnesses," the prosecutor reportedly said.
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Another crime they will let illegals get away with I guess, sort of like child abandonment.
Wonder what the kickback to Holder is.
Obama has already released 36,000 illegal aliens, he has no interest in detaining illegal aliens, no matter how serious the crime.
Maybe they confiscated a whole ton of cash from him.
Not prosecuting makes it much easier for them to keep everything via civil forfeiture.
WHY would the authorities ever want to WIN the drug war?
Much more profitable for them to maintain it infinitely at some threshold level.
selective porsecution means discrimination against those that are prosecuted. Lex rex, not Rex lex.
If it was 545 and an ounce, then it would be a prosecutable case.
Well played sir!
DNC fundraiser materials?
George Will must already know the U.S. Department of Justice has been bought off by the Mexican drug cartel when he stated in "When a president goes rogue": "If the military stalls on turning over files to Congress pertaining to the five years of Bergdahl’s absence, we will at least know that there is no national institution remaining to be corrupted."
Very true.
WHY would the authorities ever want to WIN the drug war?
I am convinced that the War on Drugs is a framework used to erode the Constitution.
Just look at your above on civil forfeiture and ask how that comports with the 4th, 5th, and 7th amendments.
>> WHY would the authorities ever want to WIN the drug war?
Cuz it’s an industry that creates jobs supporting families, communities, pensions.
Now put your silly little porn-addicted, drug-addled, abortion -loving, pro-homo-marriage libertarian ideas in the trash and move along.
Who said anything about porn?
Why must opposition to the War on Drugs based on its clearly detrimental effects on liberty be evidence of 'drug addled' minds? (Or pointing out how supporting it is contraconstitutional in nature?)
Who said anything about supporting abortion?
Who said anything about marriage at all? Much less homosexual marriage?
You pack a lot of unfounded assumptions/accusations into a small space.
>> You pack a lot of unfounded assumptions/accusations into a small space.
Precisely.
I think he’s just teasing with those accusations.
I think he’s pointing out the rebottles typically trundled out against libertarians.
My bet?
Someone stole the evidence.
I first read the title as “545 pound Drug Smuggler” which would be quite the medical condition.
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