Ramos and Compean Drug Smuggler Sentenced to Jail
By Rizzuto

Thu Aug 07, 2008 - So the innocent fellow who was shot by border petrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean isn’t such an innocent victim after all. If you’ll remember, Ramos and Compean are serving 11- and 12-year prison sentences, respectively, for attempting to interrupt a cross-border drug smuggling operation, fired their weapons in self-defense at an admitted illegal alien and drug smuggler. This from the Houston Chronicle:
An admitted drug smuggler shot by a pair of former U.S. Border Patrol agents was sentenced to nearly a decade in federal prison Wednesday.

Osvaldo Aldrete Davila, who was shot in the buttocks while fleeing from an abandoned marijuana load in 2005, was sentenced to 9½ years in prison for his role in other smuggling efforts months after he was shot.

The sentence was issued a little more than a week after a federal appeals court upheld lengthy sentences for the former agents convicted in the shooting. Their case has drawn national attention, prompting several members of Congress to call on President Bush to commute their sentences or pardon them outright.

Aldrete, of Juarez, Mexico, pleaded guilty in April to two counts of possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance, and one count each of conspiracy to import a controlled substance and conspiracy to possess a controlled substance.
So a convicted drug dealer is shown more leniency than a pair of border patrol agents who shot him in the ass. This is the scumbag that Ramos and Compean serve a jail sentence for. What kind of justice is this?





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