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Ethics complaint filed in border agents' case
Chad Groening - OneNewsNow
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Legal/Default.aspx?id=117646
An ethics complaint has been filed with the Texas Bar Association against a federal prosecutor.
The Christian organization Reviving America's Values filed the complaint after two U.S. Border Patrol agents were convicted in the shooting of a fleeing drug suspect. The suspect's injuries were not life-threatening.
Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean are serving 11- and 12-year sentences, respectively, after a federal jury convicted them of assault, obstruction of justice, and civil rights violations in the wounding of Osvaldo Aldrete Davila on the Texas border near El Paso in 2005.
But Don Swarthout, president of Christians Reviving America's Values, believes prosecutor Johnny Sutton's office willfully misled the jury in order to convict the two agents for simply doing their jobs. Swarthout says the prosecutor made Davila look like an "innocent bystander" who "took a load of drugs because he needed the money."
"... [A]nd the truth of the matter is that there were almost a million dollars worth of marijuana in the back of his vehicle," he points out. And yet Sutton took the word of this smuggler over the testimony of two distinguished U.S. Border Patrol agents, says Swarthout.
The Reviving America's Values spokesman notes that both agents had "exemplary backgrounds, and that Ramos was nominated for Border [Patrol] agent of the year."
During Sutton's prosecution of Ramos and Compean, Davila was in fact involved in a second drug delivery to the United States -- a fact Swarthout says was covered up by the prosecutor's office. The Christian activist says the facts are abundantly clear, so the Texas Bar Association should investigate Sutton.
Chad Groening - OneNewsNow
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Legal/Default.aspx?id=117646
An ethics complaint has been filed with the Texas Bar Association against a federal prosecutor.
The Christian organization Reviving America's Values filed the complaint after two U.S. Border Patrol agents were convicted in the shooting of a fleeing drug suspect. The suspect's injuries were not life-threatening.
Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean are serving 11- and 12-year sentences, respectively, after a federal jury convicted them of assault, obstruction of justice, and civil rights violations in the wounding of Osvaldo Aldrete Davila on the Texas border near El Paso in 2005.
But Don Swarthout, president of Christians Reviving America's Values, believes prosecutor Johnny Sutton's office willfully misled the jury in order to convict the two agents for simply doing their jobs. Swarthout says the prosecutor made Davila look like an "innocent bystander" who "took a load of drugs because he needed the money."
"... [A]nd the truth of the matter is that there were almost a million dollars worth of marijuana in the back of his vehicle," he points out. And yet Sutton took the word of this smuggler over the testimony of two distinguished U.S. Border Patrol agents, says Swarthout.
The Reviving America's Values spokesman notes that both agents had "exemplary backgrounds, and that Ramos was nominated for Border [Patrol] agent of the year."
During Sutton's prosecution of Ramos and Compean, Davila was in fact involved in a second drug delivery to the United States -- a fact Swarthout says was covered up by the prosecutor's office. The Christian activist says the facts are abundantly clear, so the Texas Bar Association should investigate Sutton.
