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we will NEVER be able to REPAY Ramos and Compean for what they DID for us! God BLESS them!
It seems to me that there are 2 fundamental points where the Court has erred in this appeal.
1. The main charge of discharging a firearm during a crime of violence, the issue here is that Police Officers are required to carry firearms, and where they commit a crime of violence or drugs there is immediately a minimum 5 year sentence. As far as I am aware there is no precedent for this being applied, therefore the precedent is by default is that it is not used with law officers. Why change that now. In effect every instance of an over zealous arrest or a police officer caught with possession of drugs should have had this charge against them but it has never been used in those circumstances.
2. The credibility of the witness, even if one accepts that his 5th amendment rights trump Ramos and Compean's 6th amendment rights, the witness has now pleaded guilty to subsequent offences of drug trafficking, and the Appeals Court knew that during its deliberations. Given this information, it is reasonable therefore that Davilla perjured himself by suggesting he did not know how the drugs trafficking world worked, and if the jury had known that, it would have undermined his credibility. This alone should cause a re-trial. There is no difference between this and a murder witness found to be perjuring, where the lie resulted in a death sentence.
There are dangerous precedents in this case, mandatory prosecution of 924(c)(1)(A) for Police Officers where appropriate, and the acceptance of proven perjury by the appeals court.
What next for Ramos and Compean, obviously try and have the appeal heard by the whole Appeals Court, secondly launch a civil suit against Davilla for damages for the harm caused by his perjury, effectively doing the DA’s work for them after all he now has no 5th amendment rights for the second drug smuggling incident.
It's just wrong headed to have an "illegal drug smuggler" testify against a Federal agent aka legal citizen hired to catch "illegal drug smugglers". Sheesh.
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