Posted on 11/12/2008 3:02:19 PM PST by Sleeping Freeper
A former Border Patrol agent's lengthy sentence for shooting a fleeing drug smuggler had been described as extreme by his supporters, but a federal judge showed no mercy Wednesday at the former agent's resentencing hearing in El Paso, Texas.
The judge upheld Jose Alonso Compean's original punishment and resentenced him to 10 years in prison for his conviction on a charge of using a weapon in the commission of a felony and another two years in prison for assault and other charges, the U.S. Attorney's Office said.
Compean's attorneys plan to turn to the Supreme Court for a review of the case. Bob Baskett, an attorney for Compean, did not immediately return a call for comment from FOXNews.com.
Compean, along with former agent Ignacio Ramos, was convicted in 2006 of shooting Osvaldo Adlrete Davila — an admitted, and now convicted, drug smuggler — and trying to cover up the shooting.
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Is there a better way for the President to show the face of compassionate Conservatism as he leaves the Oval Office than by issuing Presidential Pardons for the two jailed Border Agents?
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