The same U.S attorney who won eleven year prison term sentences for prosecuting Border Patrol Agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose' Compeon has now prosecuted a Texas deputy for defending himself.
A Texas Deputy Sheriff named Guillermo Hernandez who fired shots at a vehicle after the driver tried to run him down faces ten years in prison for injuring one of the passengers, a Mexican national being smuggled illegally into the United States.
His supervisor and the small Texas town are outraged.
"This is a fine young man, and I just don't believe he committed the wrong of which he was accused," his boss Sheriff Letsinger said. "I have never had anything hurt me so badly as this prosecution. We've got to make this right."
The U.S. Attorney in both cases is Johnny Sutton, appointed by President Bush in October 2001.
To read more about this story written by Jerry Seper in today's Washinton Times, click here.
Seems that this Johnny sutton character may be a closet cop hater. Wonder if the jury was denied proper instructions and explaination of the law and circumstances. This seems to be the case more and more as juries become little more than robotic pawns of the prosecution and courts in federal cases. From what I can tell from the informaton I have, I would have shot to stop the vehicle as well as it was a continuing threat to life and limb being operated by someone who was using the vehicle to purposely cause death or injury to others. The prosecutors are way out of line in my current opinion and the jury was mislead or ignorant of all facts and circumstances. Paul Wood, Deputy Sheriff, Investigator CA (ret)
Posted by: paul wood | February 03, 2007 at 09:40 AM