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Border Patrol Agent Sentences Commuted at Eleventh Hour

By Alan Gray, NewsBlaze

As one of his last official actions, at the eleventh hour, President Bush commuted the sentences of US Border Patrol Agents Ramos and Compean.

Both agents are to be released on March 20th, after serving two years in a federal penitentiary. President Bush decided to commute their sentences, leaving in place the terms of supervised release and the monetary fines, rather than issuing full pardons.

The federal conviction will remain on their records, forever limiting their employment options and financial lives.

The US Department of Justince released the following information:

Jose Alonso Compean - El Paso, Texas
Offense: Assault with a dangerous weapon, and aiding and abetting, 18 USC § 7, 113 and 2; assault with serious bodily injury, and aiding and abetting, 18 USC § 7, 113 and 2; discharge of a firearm in relation to a crime of violence, 18 USC § 924; deprivation of rights under color of law, 18 USC § 242.
Sentence: Nov. 12, 2008; Western District of Texas; 12 years in prison, three years of supervised release following the prison term, $2,000 fine.
Terms of commutation: Prison sentence to expire on March 20, 2009, leaving intact and in effect the three year term of supervised release with all its conditions and the fine.

Ignacio Ramos, a/k/a Ignacio Ramos Jr. - El Paso, Texas
Offense: Assault with a dangerous weapon, and aiding and abetting, 18 USC § 7, 113 and 2; assault with serious bodily injury, and aiding and abetting, 18 USC § 7, 113 and 2; discharge of a firearm in relation to a crime of violence, 18 USC § 924; deprivation of rights under color of law, 18 USC § 242.
Sentence: Nov. 13, 2008; Western District of Texas; 11 years and one day in prison, three years of supervised release following the prison term, $2,000 fine.
Terms of commutation: Prison sentence to expire on March 20, 2009, leaving intact and in effect the three year term of supervised release with all its conditions and the fine.

The drug smuggler they injured, illegal alien Osvaldo Aldrete Davila, was a multiple offender, a fact the prosecutors hid from the jury. The smuggler's vehicle contained a massive 800 pounds of drugs. He has since been arrested on later charges of smuggling - by the same judge that sentenced Compean and Ramos - and is serving a sentence of 9.5 years

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