Posted on 11/21/2008 7:47:10 PM PST by Sun
Ignacio Ramos (AP Photo)(CNSNews.com) – In the waning days of the Bush administration, the Department of Justice (DOJ) is mulling whether to recommend a commutation for the two former Border Patrol agents jailed for more than a decade each for shooting a Mexican drug smuggler in the buttocks.
The case is now before the DOJ’s Pardon Attorney Donald Rodgers. The Office of Pardon Attorney works in consultation with the attorney general’s office to assist the president, who has sole power of clemency in federal cases under the Constitution.
Ultimately, it is the president’s call regardless of what the Office of Pardon Attorney recommends.
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Both the House and Senate have held hearings investigating the prosecution of the agents, and numerous members of Congress have called on President George W. Bush to either pardon the two men or commute their sentences. Given the time served, attorneys are requesting commutation.
“I’m asking for a commutation, because he has already served the sentence on all counts of conviction except for the gun count,” Ramos’s attorney David Botsford told CNSNews.com.
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hope so.
I just realized there’s a thread on this here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2135101/posts?page=4
They should have been pardoned a long time ago.
I predict GWB will pardon them. IMO, that was the plan from the beginning.
I hope it happens, but it would not restore my disappointment in one GWB.
Send Bush a letter, or an email, and put in the subject line: “Please show compassion and commute the sentences of Ramos and Compean.”
There’s finally a hearing to commute Ramos and Compean, which is hopeful, imo, and maybe it’s because of our letters, emails and phone calls (especially letters). Please keep it up.
“They should have been pardoned a long time ago.”
Fine politicians who are trying to get them free, like Duncan Hunter, et al, are AT LEAST hoping they will get a commute for time served.
I feel so sorry for these men and their families.
they should never have been sent to jail in the first place. Period!!! wonder if they can give those men and their families the time that was stolen from them?
Wouldn’t pardon be a cleaner slate?
Please contact President Bush. This is so important. Keep it nice. I know some think it wont help, but, there is strength in numbers.
comments@whitehouse.gov
202-456-1111
They are worth it. I agree.
Thanks.
DONE!
THANKS.
“Wouldn’t pardon be a cleaner slate?”
Absolutely!
But the president doesn’t seem to want to do that, so Rep. Duncan Hunter, and others, are trying to AT LEAST get Bush to commute their sentences for time served.
Time is running out, and they need to be home with their families.
Welllll,
I politely told him that I thought he should pardon them and that they should have never been charged in the first place.
He needs to remember God is watching his every move every minute.
Thanks.
Thank YOU!
Certainly.
BTTT
They deserve our flooding the whitehouse with msgs.
Takes only 2-4 minutes.
Let’s hope they can salvage some kind of justice out of this debacle.
“Let’s hope they can salvage some kind of justice out of this debacle.”
Besides the terrible suffering these men and their families are going through, it is harming our national security, because other agents will be afraid to do their job.
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