Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Update! - Ramos Attorney Calls For Mistrial

The prosecutor in the high-profile case that sent border agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean to prison never showed the defense a potentially exculpatory Department of Homeland Security memo.

The document, an April 12, 2005, memo by Special Agent Christopher Sanchez, was first made public by WND in a report published Feb. 6. Mary Stillinger, attorney for Compean, confirmed she learned of the memo from the WND story.

"This is huge," Stillinger told WND, arguing the government's failure to disclose the document to the defense denied her client his right to a fair trial and establishes the basis for declaring a mistrial.



2 comments:

Anonymous said...

One can only hope. I am very discouraged with the lack of immigration enforcement. I don't believe that it's going to happen. Too much money and too much politics converging on the open border side.

Tiger said...

Yeah... ol Phyllis Schlafly has it right, I think (last entry). The illegals are giving our businesses, big and small, cheap labor. This labor is as important as tax cuts (even more so).

Those two things combined with the vote, override any devotion to mere sovereignty. It won't surprise me at all when Bush starts calling for illegals to have the right to vote - just as the Dems have been doing.

Bush said it and he means it; "money overrides everything". We are becoming the Romans - I have no doubt now. The difference will be that we'll live a "rich" life 'cause the world's economy is so intrinsically linked. We won't have freedom, though.

How does the old ditty go? "Freedoms just another word for nothing left to lose"?