Is Johnny Sutton now going to tell us that the information that lead to the arrest of Davila has only recently come to his attention? Then how does he explain that the prosecution fought to have the record of Davila’s sencond arrest for drug running supressed (keeping it from the jury) at the trial of Ramos and Compean due to the fact that there was an ongoing investigation into the second load? Sutton was fully aware of the arrest for the second load, as was Chris Sanchez of the OIG. But it would have been pretty damn hard to garner a conviction on Ramos and Compean if the jury learned that their star witenss, who was just running drugs one time to take care of an ailing mother, was still doing it. This case has smelled to high heaven from the git-go. The prosecuting attorney made the statement in court that it is not the job of Border Patrol agents to apprehend drug runners. The U.S. Attorney’s office has also stated that it is not the job of the BP to apprehend illegals. Then can someone please tell me what the hell the job of the BP is? Having read the trial transcripts there are a few players who should be under investigation themselves. Rene Sanchez, the Tucson sector BP agent that help Davila, and who testified that he did not line Davila up with an attorney to sue the federal government while Davila testified that Rene Sanchez did, in fact, take himto an attorney; Chris Sanchez, who made the immunity deal with the permission of the U.S. Attorney’s office, and Johnny Sutton himself, who withheld pertinent information from the defense, not to mention the jury, in order to secure a conviction. And with the administration, and many Congressmen, saying that we need more BP agents, one has to ask: who the hell in their right mind would ever take that job?

It appears clear that there is no case against these two border patrol men and that Sutton carefully constructed a case based on half truths, falsehoods, and distortions. What I want to know is when will these two men be pardoned and when will Sutton be prosecuted.

Regardless of whether Ramos and Compean were guilty of some administrative slipup, they should be exonerated, set free, reimbursed for legal fees, reinstated as law enforcement agents, and Bush-buddy Sutton (another pro-illegal alien Alberto Gonzales/Harriett Miers type of attorney?) should be treated like Duke Case former DA Nifong…