By Joseph Abrams at Foxnews.com:
Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean have been released from federal prison after serving more than two years in solitary confinement for the non-fatal shooting of a Mexican drug smuggler.
President Bush commuted the sentences of the two border guards Jan. 19, and his order will go into effect on March 20. The pair will serve out the remaining month of their sentences in home confinement in El Paso, Texas…
Ramos and Compean were sentenced to 11 years and 12 years respectively for the 2005 shooting of Osvaldo Aldrete-Davila, a Mexican national now in prison for attempting to smuggle hundreds of pounds of marijuana in to the U.S…
The pair will remain on “supervised release” for a period of up to three years, according to a statement from Ramos’ lawyer, David Botsford. Botsford said it was appropriate to commute the pair’s sentence in light of the “onerous” conditions they experienced while incarcerated. [Read More]
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