Posted by
JayPeriod on Monday, December 03, 2007 6:58:43 PM
Today, an appeals court heard the case against hero border agents Compean and Ramos. They now have a chance to get it right. After hearing all the evidence, they should decide to free them.
That they are even in jail is a travesty of justice. Assistant U.S. Attorney Sutton was more interested in the favor of the Mexican government than pursuing justice. Were he not, these two Border Agents would have been rewarded for stopping a drug-running illegal, and protecting their country, rather then being thrown in jail. Even one of the justices today was noted as commenting that the prosecution overreacted in the case.
I find it hard to imagine, in this day and age, that someone would find it appalling that two decorated men would do what they could to stop someone from bringing drugs into our country. That he would then grant amnesty to this drug-runner, allowing him to continue his crime, just to find favor with a foreign government brings into question his fitness for the job. The only crime here seems to be the treason of U.S. Attorney Sutton.
Hopefully, this court will get it right. The two options are to throw the case out all together or to retry the case. Surely the injustice done these fine men will sway the court to throw out the case entirely. Then, they can be about the business of trying Sutton for treason and deporting him to his beloved Mexico.