The time should match the crime. This sentence doesn't. Still believe the agents were acting in best way they knew to stop a smuggler, and I certainly don't believe the drug smuggler was honest in his testimony. He got another chance to dump drugs on the streets of Texas, but was caught. Many members of Congress agree. The agents have done enought time. Letter from Congress:
Dear Mr. President:
We write this letter asking for your personal intervention to use your exclusive authority given to you under Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution and pardon U.S. Border Patrol agents Jose Compean and Ignacio Ramos.
As you know, these two agents were prosecuted and convicted for shooting an illegal alien drug smuggler near the U.S. – Mexico border in Texas and were sentenced to over ten years in prison. They have been imprisoned now for almost two years.
Yesterday, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit rendered its decision on the two agents’ appeals and upheld the most serious yet the most unjustified charge; one that carries a mandatory 10 year minimum sentence for the use of a firearm. Clearly, we feel the law was misapplied and law enforcement officers who are on duty and during the pursuit or apprehension of an individual who they believed had committed a crime should be an exception. The severity of the charges and the harshness of the punishment is totally disproportionate to the violation in question.
Further, this decision and the national attention given this case has had a demoralizing effect on the men and women who defend America at our border while at the same time sends the right message to the criminals seeking to do our nation harm. Our border agents must not have hesitation before using their weapons in defense of our laws and borders from dangerous criminals. The results of this incident are unfortunate yet the unintended consequences stemming from it are far reaching and one that warrants your immediate intervention to restore safety and security at the border.
We therefore again and respectfully ask, especially as you near the end of your administration, to correct this injustice that has occurred during your presidency and pardon U.S. Border Patrol agents Jose Compean and Ignacio Ramos.

"And I'm no liberal weakling."

Me neither! Nor a 98 pound one either!

Liberal weakling?
Anyway these agents were convicted because of the agents' own conflicting stories and actions ---- and the statements of other Border Patrol officers who testified against them, including the five agents and two supervisors who showed up on the scene.

http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2007/...

Why are these ex-agents so important? Never mind.

Perhaps the "Conspiracy Crowd" should actually investigate the actions of these two criminal law enforcement liars before offering to release them.

I have, and they deserve the punishment they are recieving. And I'm no liberal weakling. All law enforcement officials take an oath to protect and enforce the law. Do break the law while pretending to enforce the law should be dealt with severely.

Reminds me of some local issues as well.......

Roberttx-To answer your question-no. Counts 6 thru 10 of the indictment which dealt with obstruction of justice were reversed by the 5th Circuit. Prosection and conviction under 924(c) carried a mimimum 10 year sentence. The ruling also stated that they could surely debate whether there is an intuitive distinction between a violent criminal or drug trafficker using a gun during the course of their trade and a law enforcement officer using a gun against a fleeing felon; however, neither the statute nor the case make such a distinction. Thus the bill introduced by Rep. Kevin Brady exempting law enforcement officials from 924(c).

NO, shame on you. All are criminals. I don't defend any of them. They all broke the law.
Kucinich is an idiot? That's rich coming from Al.  Dude, he doesn't live in Victoria, so he is one step up!!

Dennis Kucinich is an idiot. He thinks the only purpose of the US House is to play cheerleader for the minority and far-left special interest groups. Go read up on his voting record lil' j.

Will W's impeachment save the polar bears too?
Please make this connection for me, because I just don't see it.

Ragman shame shame on you.

This guy was a coyote with a sealed record. He is a serial criminal. The judge would not let all the information and facts be revealed at the trial.

Bush and the federal level are behind this. Johnny Sutton was mad they would not take the 2 year deal. So he made sure he pi###d up the wall higher.

Ask yourself after these last rulings, if the law enforcement officers will protect you.

As hiding evidence or such. It was because they did not tell their immediate watch commander something. Which by their policy they were not required to. This was another Johnny Sutton Kool-Aid trick.

Ask your self why the Fifth Circuit poured acid over Johnny Sutton last December and then made a Bush Kool-Aid decision yesterday?

Neither man was able to face their accuser, part of your constitutional rights. Now they have been taken away.

Not to mention they shot an unarmed man in the buttocks.  Oh the humiliation!
Like any other criminals, they will only do a portion of the 10 year sentence.  Don't do the crime, if you can't do the time!  Don't do it!

Aren't the two ex-agents in jail for giving false statements during the investigation, not shooting the suspect ?

Cal, thank you for keeping news of this travesty alive. The case of Ramos and Compean cries to Heaven for retribution.

Further, there should be a full-scale investigation (either legal or journalistic or both) into the driving force of this aggressive prosecution against two law enforcement officers doing their jobs and the leniency toward the illegal alien who was further violating U.S. law by smuggling drugs into the country. In other words, who was Aldrete-Davila REALLY working for?