Beg-a-thon announced for convicted felons Ramos and Compean

 Posted by on 2009/10/17  Comments Off
Oct 172009
 
Beg-a-thon announced for convicted felons Ramos and Compean

Don’t these morons ever give up? It’s being billed as ‘A Time for Justice’ fundraiser. Nacho Ramos and Jose Compean will be headed back to court in order to clear their names. The fundraiser in Houston, Texas will raise funds for their legal defense team and the agents hope to finally be granted a fair trial where all the evidence can be heard. The first trial that led to their conviction is directly tied to U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton’s refusal to disclose significant evidence and facts to the jury.Both Ramos and Compean are seeking a retrial in Texas to clear their names. A new trial comes with a risk as the men could be convicted and sent back to prison. MORE

Ramos & Compean Released to Community Confinement

 Posted by on 2009/02/17  12 Responses »
Feb 172009
 
Ramos & Compean Released to Community Confinement

Former U.S. border patrol agents and now convicted felons Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean were released from prison Tuesday, but will remain in a community confinement program until March 20, U.S. Bureau of Prison officials said. The two agents had been in prison since 2007. President George W. Bush commuted their sentences before he left office. Traci Billingsley, bureau of prisons spokeswoman, said Tuesday that the two men are out of prison and under the “supervision of the community corrections office for a period of community confinement.” Community confinement means the sentenced person has to spend the last phrase of their sentence either in a halfway house or in home confinement. Dallas criminal defense lawyer Ed Mason, who represented Compean MORE

Compean, Ramos Commutations — Bush Throws a ‘DOGGY BONE’ To Hungry Dobbs, Nativists and Vigilante THUGS

 Posted by on 2009/01/25  2 Responses »
Jan 252009
 
Compean, Ramos Commutations — Bush Throws a ‘DOGGY BONE’ To Hungry Dobbs, Nativists and Vigilante THUGS

Lou Dobbs, the King of Xenophobia rallying around (in favor of) Hispanics — FAT CHANCE!, … ….. unless the Hispanics are his Mexican wife, and two half-Mexican daughters. Just before Obama took over, idiot Bush “took a final dump” on his already super-soiled legacy, by commuting the sentences of two “Hispanic Ex-U.S. Border Patrol agents,” who had been convicted of shooting an unarmed Mexican drug smuggler. The two men, Texas-based agents Jose Alonso Compean and Ignacio “Nacho” Ramos, were serving prison terms of 12 years and 11 years, respectively, after being found guilty of assault with a dangerous weapon, defacing a crime scene and violating the smuggler’s rights. Compean and Ramos shot admitted drug smuggler Osvaldo Aldrete Davila in the MORE

Ruben Navarrette on Ramos & Compean Commutations

 Posted by on 2009/01/25  Comments Off
Jan 252009
 
Ruben Navarrette on Ramos & Compean Commutations

I was glad to see that George W. Bush commuted the prison sentences of former Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean. And frankly, I was a bit surprised I was glad. I never had much sympathy for Ramos or Compean, disgraced law enforcement officers who were convicted of shooting a Mexican drug smuggler and then lying about it. From studying the facts, hearing the arguments of the agents’ supporters, and interviewing U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton, whose office tried the case, I’m convinced the pair broke the law and that they were justly convicted and sentenced. Ramos received 11 years and Compean got 12. Both will be released on March 20. Bush was also convinced that the men MORE

Bush’s Parting Shot: Kiss my Ass!

 Posted by on 2009/01/23  Comments Off
Jan 232009
 
Bush's Parting Shot: Kiss my Ass!

New America Media, Commentary, Roberto Dr. Cintli Rodriguez, TUCSON, Ariz. — On his last full day in office, ex-president Bush chose to commute the sentences of ex-border patrol officers Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean. They had been convicted of shooting a Mexican man in the buttocks, covering up the evidence and lying about the shooting. The shooting took place as Osvaldo Aldrete Davila was fleeing across the border into Mexico near El Paso, Texas. With a stroke of his pen, Bush gave the Mexican and migrant community a message: “Besar me culo.” The controversial commutations were ripe with symbolism. They took place hours before Bush went back to Texas and hours before President Barack Obama was sworn in.

On the Commutations of Ramos and Compean

 Posted by on 2009/01/22  2 Responses »
Jan 222009
 
On the Commutations of Ramos and Compean

We don’t really have too much of a problem on the commutations of convicted felons Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean, although the President should have respected the Judge’s sentence. We have major problems with mandatory sentencing guidelines which Judges must adhere to which ties their hands in doing the job they were sworn to do. Here is some reactions from across the web, which we agree with in whole or in principal. These opinions give a common sense counterpoint to all the hype and erroneous information being thrown around out there by their supporters.

Ramos and Compean SHOULD NOT be pardoned!!!

 Posted by on 2009/01/18  Comments Off
Jan 182009
 
Ramos and Compean SHOULD NOT be pardoned!!!

As we come closer to a changing of the guard in Washington my email has been flooded with links to people DEMANDING pardons for convicted felons Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean, and as my disgust at the stupidity of these people rises, I sat here contemplating how to put in my dos centavos. But someone else has taken the words from my mind and put them on the web. I’m going to use his words en todo, because I could not have said it better. With full credit to STEPHEN LITTAU at Fearless Philosophy for Free Minds