Update on Ramos and Compean 7/19/07
by James Buchanan
The John and Ken show reported that corrupt prosecutor Johnny Sutton (who hid key evidence beneficial to the defense of Border Patrol agents Ramos and Compean) was grilled by the Senate. Senator Dianne Feinstein was surprisingly harsh toward Sutton and sympathetic toward the Border Patrol agents. (She was probably trying to rehabilitate her reputation after getting hundreds of thousands of angry calls over the Amnesty Bill.)
Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean were railroaded into prison by Bush appointee Johnny Sutton. Key evidence was illegally suppressed and the Border Patrol agents got ten years on trumped up charges.
What exactly did these agents do that merited a ten year sentence? They fired in self defense after spotting a gun in the hand of a drug smuggler, who had a one million dollar load of drugs. The drug smuggler Osvaldo Davila escaped across the border and agents Ramos and Compean did not want to fill out the reams of paperwork required for firing their guns when it wasn’t clear they had even hit anyone. (more…)