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Monday, January 19, 2009

No more Bush pardons coming? What about Scooter Libby?

Bush has commuted the sentences of ex-Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean according to Yahoo News. This is not a big surprise. He has been repeatedly asked to do so, and finally did it today. It is interesting that he merely commuted the sentences to time served but did not pardon them. They will get out withing about two months after having served over two years on the original sentences of more than 10 years each. The convictions remain.

There was one paragraph in the story that really surprised me, though.

Bush technically has until noon on Tuesday when President-elect Barack Obama is sworn into office to exercise his executive pardon authority, but presidential advisers said no more were forthcoming.

That would mean, if true, that the widely anticipated pardon for Scooter Libby is not going to happen.

For background on the Scooter Libby crime, see Jurors convict Libby on four of five charges and Bush commutes Libby's prison sentence.

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posted by Richard @ 12:46 PM

2 Comments:

At 1/19/2009 8:00 PM, The Intellectual Redneck said…

If you shot a drug smuggler in the butt, where I live, you wouldn't get a prison sentence. One of your relatives would take you to a Cracker Barrel for a celebratory meal.
The Intellectual Redneck
At 1/20/2009 12:13 PM, Richard said…

The defense was unable to show any proof during the trial that the man was a drug smuggler. There was an abandoned truck of marijuana nearby, but nothing at all that connected the victim to it. The two assumed without evidence that he was a smuggler and shot him on the basis of that assumption and because he was running away.

As I understand there is not a reputable police force in the U.S. that permits their officers to shoot a fleeing man in the back when there is no evidence that he has a weapon. The requirements to use deadly force were not there.

Finally, those cops knew they were in the wrong. They carefully policed up their brass and lied to cover the shooting up. This evidence was brought out by the prosecutors.

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