[Secret Agent Man]

Boo hoo.

He could have avoided all of this by staying in Mexico.

[pissant]

Just peachy

[stylin19a]

he’ll get a retrial on appeal....

[Hegemony Cricket]

“Sob Story” or “SOB Story”?

[wideawake]

He's just saying all the things his lawyer says he needs to say in order to prepare grounds for an appeal.

He is hoping that pro-immigration lobbies will be gullible enough to adopt his cause as if he were Mumia Abu-Jamal.

[theDentist]

I wish the Judge had given him the Death Penalty anyhow.

[KLFuchs]

Thank the administration and the 535 imbeciles in Congress.

[Tzimisce]

The truly sad part is that this guy will probably win his appeal....

[CaspersGh0sts]

Am I the only one who thinks we should be sending these foreign nationals back to Mexico for their sentence?

At the very least, even if we freaking paid them to keep them, it would be cheaper than keeping them here.

Might be a deterrent, as well. NO ONE wants to spend time in a Mexican prison.

[Checkers]

Thank you John McCain.

[reagan_fanatic]

Fly him to the Mexican border. Open door. Push him out.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

“I just find it amazing that you can stand here and say those things,” McShane said. “You’re concerned that you were mistreated here as a foreign national and yet you were importing into this country pounds and pounds of methamphetamine that were effecting all the people in this community. You ordered the killings of two people, and you’re telling us that we’re mistreating you.”

I find it amazing that these words came from the mouth of a judge on the West Coast.

[PUGACHEV]

Those here who neither are nor have not been attorneys in private practice would not know that this sort of behavior is not unique to foreign nationals, or even particularly unusual. Very few people accept responsibility or blame themselves for anything. Most people blame the system, the economy, the government, the judge, the jurors, the police, and the victim(s). Last, but not least, they blame their own attorney, whose advice and direction they almost never follow. In the practice of law, especially criminal law, you tend to meet the worst people in the worst time of their life.

[NTHockey]

The sad part is there is a judge in this country who will look at this case and order a retrial. Their will also be hundreds of lawyers hoping to get the case.

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

"All the law books are in English,” he said. “I can’t read English."

Tough luck. Maybe you shouldn't have been here in the first place?

[Clemenza]

Idiot. Despite knowing Spanish, I would STILL have a problem with the Mexican legal system due to my having to recall archaic civil law codes from my school days. This fool is damn lucky that he is reaping the benefits of our common law system.

[Publius6961]

I think we need a new option for juries, which are usually stymied:

Death and Release.

The sentence is death, with mandatory release of the body within 90 days, dead or alive.

I ain't saying more.

[DustyMoment]

Whew!!! Sanchez-Jacabo has more arguments that an enviro-whacko (Algore comes to mind). He reminds the judge that he is a Mexican national, then complains that he was “denied his constitutional rights”! Dude, as a Mexican national, you ain’t got no constitutional rights!!

But, the topper is that all the legal books in the jail house are in English and he CAN’T READ ENGLISH!!!! So, senor, how is that the court’s problem!!??

If I didn’t know better, I would mistake this as a Cheech and Chong routine to entertain the court!!

[pogo101]

It’s a shame that the system allows him to lie to the jury, to fake his remorse, then “take it all back” without any possibility that the jury can reverse its lenient sentence. (The LIGHTEST possible sentence in CA for ordering a “hit,” for material gain, is life without parole.) I have little doubt that, had the same jury heard this guy’s whining to the judge, they’d have given him the chair.

[ßuddaßudd]

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