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General Category => Immigration/Border => Topic started by: rangerrebew on February 18, 2020, 03:56:37 pm
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Partner of ICE agent killed by cartel hitmen 'devastated' after court drops convictions, vows to fight decision
Talia Kaplan
By Talia Kaplan | Fox News
Outrage after cartel assassins have convictions dismissed by DC court
Victor Avila, retired ICE agent, relives the ambush by cartel hitmen that killed his ICE partner and the subsequent dismissal of murder charges against the assassins
Retired Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Victor Avila reacted on Monday to the fact that two Los Zetas cartel assassins have had their convictions partially vacated in the killing of his partner in Mexico nine years ago, saying he is “devastated†by the decision and vowing to fight "all the way to the Supreme Court.â€
Avila was wounded in the attack that killed his partner, Jaime Zapata. Speaking on “Fox & Friends†on Monday, he said: “We're going to continue to fight this and hopefully we're going to right this wrong.â€
Jose Emanuel “Zafado†Garcia Sota and Jesus Ivan “Loco†Quezada Pina had been convicted of four counts in Zapata's murder in San Luis Potosi. A jury in Washington returned the verdict in 2017.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/ice-agent-killed-cartel-court-reverses-convictions (https://www.foxnews.com/media/ice-agent-killed-cartel-court-reverses-convictions)
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He added that the court sites a clause in its decision which states that “because the murder happened outside of the United States, the murder statute used to convict these killers was not valid.â€
“However, there are other appellate courts within the United States that have upheld this before,†Avila noted.
This sounds like the sort of conflict among appellate courts that the USSC is likely to resolve. BTW, the cartel dudes were convicted on other counts that were not overturned, so they aren't being set free.
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All of the troops that we have tossed in jail over stuff that happened in Afghanistan and Iraq did not seem to deter the courts...
This is all kids of stupid....
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Much ado about nothing other than legal technicalities. These goobers have multiple life sentences plus 20 years,so they ain't going anywhere but the graveyard.
What the courts SHOULD be doing is tracing the cartel money coming into the country to pay the lawyers,and issuing arrest warrants for everyone involved.
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Forget it, Vic.
It's CartelTown...
(Mexico)
We know who runs things down there.