{"id":910,"date":"2007-07-18T13:00:36","date_gmt":"2007-07-18T17:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=910"},"modified":"2007-07-18T13:04:29","modified_gmt":"2007-07-18T17:04:29","slug":"sutton-grilled-in-ramos-compean-hearing-please-call-your-us-senators-and-ask-them-to-help-get-these-guys-out-of-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2007\/07\/18\/sutton-grilled-in-ramos-compean-hearing-please-call-your-us-senators-and-ask-them-to-help-get-these-guys-out-of-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Sutton grilled in Ramos-Compean hearing PLEASE CALL YOUR U.S. SENATORS AND ASK THEM TO HELP GET THESE GUYS OUT OF PRISON!"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Referring to the hearing testimony of Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., Feinstein argued, however, the sentences for Ramos and Compean &#8220;are more than most people serve for murder.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>WorldNetDaily.com<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sutton grilled in Ramos-Compean hearing<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein concluded a Senate hearing today on the high-profile prosecution of former Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean with a vow to look further into why prosecutors charged the men with a violation that requires a mandatory 10-year sentence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Chairing the Senate judiciary committee hearing, Feinstein questioned the decision to charge the agents under 18 United States Code section 924(c)(1)(a), which requires the harsh sentence for using or carrying a firearm in the commission of a crime of violence. <\/p>\n<p>Ramos and Compean are serving 11- and 12-year sentences, respectively, after a jury convicted them of violating federal gun laws and covering up the shooting of a drug smuggler as he fled back to Mexico after driving across the border with 742 pounds of marijuana in February 2005. U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton&#8217;s office gave the smuggler, Osbaldo Aldrete-Davila, immunity to serve as the government&#8217;s star witness and testify against the border agents&#8230;.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldnetdaily.com\/news\/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=56719\">more here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Referring to the hearing testimony of Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., Feinstein argued, however, the sentences for Ramos and Compean &#8220;are more than most people serve for murder.&#8221; WorldNetDaily.com Sutton grilled in Ramos-Compean hearing Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein concluded a Senate hearing today on the high-profile prosecution of former Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}