Did You Know - Border Crossing Agents

This is interesting - and I'm not sure how I feel about it. Enough wrongs here to go around - but I'd need to read more than this one article before I formed an opinion.

The case of agents Jose Alonso Compean and Ignacio Ramos has become a cause celebre for conservative talk radio, bloggers and politicians. The agents were sentenced in October 2006 to 12 and 11 years in prison, respectively, by a federal judge in El Paso, Texas. Supporters say the sentences were unbelievably harsh, an example of overzealous prosecution and of misplaced government priorities.

The two agents admitted they shot and wounded unarmed drug-smuggling suspect Osvaldo Aldrete-Davila in the buttocks as he fled from them on Feb. 17, 2005, after crashing a van loaded with 743 pounds of marijuana in west Texas. He fled on foot; they caught him and scuffled. He escaped and refused their order to stop as he ran toward the Mexican border.

From KansasCity.com