Do you think it's a travesty of Justice that Bush' hands are tied to Pardon Ramos/Compean ex-border agents?

Question

In Part:

The Justice Department said it had not received petitions from several recently convicted political figures. It also has no petition for Jose Compean and Ignacio Ramos, two former Border Patrol agents whose case has become a travesty in the illegal alien invasion. The pair is ineligible to apply for clemency through normal procedures because their cases are on appeal.

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the major counts against former Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean, reversing only a minor obstruction of justice count. The court affirmed all convictions except for tampering with an official proceeding, which it vacated and remanded for resentencing. In vacating only the convictions under the obstruction of justice indictments, the appellate court remanded for re-sentencing only the "one year and a day and two years" part of the sentence that did not derive from the mandatory 10-year sentencing requirements under Section 924(c).The agents were convicted for assault, discharge of a weapon in the commission of a crime of violence, tampering with an official proceeding and deprivation of civil rights.

Ramos and Compean will continue to serve 11- and 12-year prison sentences, respectively, as a jury convicted them of violating federal gun laws and covering up the shooting of a drug smuggler as he fled back to Mexico after driving across the border with 743 pounds of marijuana in February 2005.

The bulk of their sentences, however, stem from a mandatory 10-year minimum sentence imposed by Congress for anyone convicted of discharging a weapon in the commission of a crime. Only a reversal of that count could remove 10 years from their sentences. The agents were convicted for assault, discharge of a weapon in the commission of a crime of violence, tampering with an official proceeding and deprivation of civil rights.

Thelast remaining level of appeal for Ramos and Compean is the U.S. Supreme Court which they are in the process of appealing to.

What do you think? Should Ramos, and Compean be pardoned anyway?

http://mcdckc.blogspot.com/2008/08/felons-ask-president-bush-for-pardons.html

Answer 1

This is the worst thing that has happened in the Bush administration.  These guys were doing there jobs. I understand the courts are responsible for the decision to put them in prison but the president should have pardoned them immediately.  Not only are innocent men are in prison but it underminds the border patrol.

Answer 2

I am liberial so this probably the only issue we will agree on. Two law enforcement agents shot a drug dealer i think that they should be let out immediately. Not only are these men and their families suffereing but the green light is up for criminals to go wild on the boirder and within the country

If there was a cover up then then that should be an interal matter for the boder patrol. The fact that the drug dealer was given amnsety to testify stinks to high heavens

Answer 3

No. Border patrol agents should never be pardoned.

Answer 4

If I were Bush I would have Pardoned them the day after their Conviction.I mean really,what's the worst that could happen?Would it "taint" his Legacy?In fact Bush's failure to Pardon these two men is one of many things I despise about the man.If he doesn't at least Pardon them before he leaves Office then he's the worst President in US history as far as I'm concerned.

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Answer 5

They were found guilty by a jury of their peers.  Perhaps their sentences should be commuted to time served, but no way should they be pardoned.  I don't want to see these two cowboys ever toting a badge, and a gun again.

Answer 6

it is a disgrace and a travesty of justice. God bless those two men and their families. Thank you for keeping it in the forefront with posts such as this.  Some of our politicians and judges should suffer such a fate

Answer 7

His hands aren't tied.  And the use a gun go to jail rule implies illegal gun use, which this wasn't.  Only failing to report it violated the law, as I understand it.