Rocksprings, Texas sheriff says his deputy victimized by overzealous federal prosecutor
By Joe Hyde
Special to LIVE!
Sheriff Don Letsinger's Letter to Judge Robert T Dawson on convicted Edwards County Deputy Gilmer Hernandez"Your Honor, I have always believed that those of us that protect and defend the law are obligated to truth. The truth to disclose to a Jury or Grand Jury all the facts, all the evidence, the truth and the whole truth. We must do this even if the guilty are not indicted or found not guilty. Justice is only truly served with the truth. I cannot begin to explain to anyone my dismay when I was informed of the guilty verdict handed down against Deputy Sheriff Guillermo F. Hernandez. I assure you that I became truly ill. I could have not been any more upset if the verdict had been passed on my own son. My first thoughts were that the system that I have served for 25 years had failed. For about three days I was ashamed to be part of the law enforcement community that serves and protects the Constitution. Finally I remembered what I already knew. The Grand Jury did not fail, they indicted on the information they were given. The Jury did not fail, they convicted on the evidence presented. The Court did not fail the system. The Court does not control the investigation or the prosecution’s presentation of the facts. I know that the system only fails when we (law enforcement officers and prosecutors) the protectors of the system fail the system by not disclosing to the jury the whole truth, all the facts and all the evidence. We fail the system when we imply to the jury wrong doing when there is none. When it is implied that evidence was not collected to protect an officer from prosecution. When we know that the policy requires another agency to collect that evidence and the prosecution knew the evidence was collected. We fail the system when we imply to the jury that policy is law. When we know that policy is only a guideline for operations. When we imply before a jury that evidence may have been tampered with. When those of us who know better know that it is a simple thing for the FBI to test a videotape to see if it has been erased or tampered with. We fail the system when an expert witness testifies with words like “There were four shots fired and maybe six.” When we posture before the jury with implications that we do not believe the integrity of a witness when we know the witness is honorable and truthful. We fail the system when we know a witness for the government has made false statements to investigators and we justify those statements as confusion and we do so for a conviction. We fail the system when we buy witnesses and purchase testimony at the expense of our Statutes. Your Honor, no man should stand for judgement based on prosecution courtroom antics in the name of advocacy based on false statements and implied evidence. As God is my witness Deputy Hernandez is a good and honorable young man. Deputy Hernandez told the truth when he said the driver of the vehicle tried to run him over. Even the statement of Yvonne Hernandez-Morales supports Deputy Hernandez. “When the officer got to the drivers door the driver took off.” Deputy Hernandez and his wife could have told any story they wanted. Deputy Hernandez was shooting at the tires trying to stop a vehicle whose driver was evading arrest or detention. Deputy Hernandez had every right to arrest and detain the driver of the evading vehicle. Deputy Hernandez did not intentionally harm anyone. Deputy Hernandez is a good enough shot to have placed all the rounds in his weapon right through the back glass of the suburban. Your Honor, I respectfully request that you sentence Guillermo Falcon Hernandez to time served and release him from custody. |
“I’ll tell you one thing is going to happen from all of this: someone is going to get killed,” Edwards County Sheriff Don G. Letsinger said about the current climate of prosecuting law enforcement officers, including one of his own.
Letsinger has noted five highly publicized cases brought by the United States Attorney’s Office, Western District of Texas. That “someone” that may be killed is not likely to be a civilian, according to Letsinger. “The checklist is getting too long before you [as a law enforcement officer] decide ‘is it going to be me or you?’” he said.
Letsinger is Deputy Sheriff Gilmer Hernandez’s boss. And today, Hernandez sits in the GEO Group jail in Del Rio, Texas, awaiting sentencing that could incarcerate him for ten years in a federal penitentiary. Hernandez’s crime was that he used a firearm, he contends, in self-defense. The feds say he violated the civil rights of an illegal alien in doing so.
On April 14, 2005, at almost 12 midnight, Deputy Gilmer Hernandez was nearing the end of his shift that had started at 4 p.m. His wife, Ashley, called and asked if he would give her a ride to get a Coke out of a nearby soda machine. With his house not far off the path of his last patrol, Hernandez picked his wife up, expecting to drive from the Coke machine back to the sheriff’s office to end his shift. From there, he and his wife would drive home together in their own car.
Fate would interrupt the plan when a blue Chevrolet Suburban ran a stop sign in front of Hernandez. He flipped on his lights and pursued the Suburban for .8 mile until the driver finally pulled over on U.S. 377, just north of Rocksprings, away from any streetlights. Hernandez got out of his patrol car and approached the Suburban on the driver’s side, according to procedure. Hernandez walked to just behind the driver’s door and ordered the driver to roll down the window. Inside, he could see seven or eight people hunched over, as if hiding.
Rocksprings, in Edwards County, Texas, is 80 miles from the Texas border with Mexico. And while drug trafficking and people smuggling is not as concentrated as it is in Val Verde and Maverick County that are directly adjacent to the Rio Grande, the sparse population of Edwards County makes it an attractive conduit for traffickers making their way to the Interstate 35 corridor, and onward to Austin and the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex.
And while human smuggling and drug trafficking are nothing new to Edwards County, “One thing changed it all for us and that was 9/11,” Letsinger said. Since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the U.S. mainland, federal agencies have informed border law enforcement agencies with plenty of information about the kinds of human smuggling that may be happening in their backyards.
“We usually don’t get anything specific, but we have been warned that groups like Al Qaeda could use the coyotes smuggling humans out of Mexico to get their people in our country,” Letsinger said. And then there are dirty bombs, chemical and biological weapons, Letsinger said. “We don’t know on a day-to-day basis exactly who we are going to confront out here,” he said. And the message traffic his office receives each day is reviewed by everyone, usually before shifts begin, noted Chief Deputy Sheriff Jay Adams. “We watch the threat conditions issued by Homeland Security rise and fall daily,” Adams said.
That evening, with the apprehension of not knowing who he was facing, Deputy Gilmer Hernandez, standing barely a foot from the side of the blue Suburban, witnessed the driver suddenly place the transmission into gear and swerve violently left into the space where the deputy was standing. “That was assault on a law enforcement officer,” Letsinger said, not to mention fleeing arrest.
Startled, Hernandez told the Texas Rangers that he jumped out of the way, pulled his weapon and discharged three bullets, aiming at the tires of the Suburban. One bullet punctured the left tire. Two others lodged in the tailgate near the taillights. At least one bullet (or a fragment) penetrated a seam in the tailgate and entered the rear compartment. The Rangers later determined that Hernandez fired four bullets that night.
Obviously, the Suburban had something to hide, and Hernandez feared it had a “load” of either humans or drugs…or both.
The Suburban sped off on the flat tire, but only traveled another 1,500 feet with Hernandez in hot pursuit. By this time, Hernandez had called for backup. When the Suburban came to a stop, it slammed into an “H” brace after attempting to turn off the highway.
The human cargo, that the Texas Rangers determined in a subsequent investigation were illegal aliens, a coyote and a “guide,” scattered on foot, except for one woman who was apparently injured. A bullet fragment had penetrated the lip of one of the illegal aliens by the name of Maricela Rodriguez Garcia, and shattered a few teeth before exiting out the hole of her mouth. Garcia was rushed to Val Verde Regional Medical Center in Del Rio and then on to Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio where she was released the next day into the custody of her husband, who drove down from Austin to pick her up.
Discharging a firearm is a big deal at the sheriff’s office and Hernandez immediately informed Sheriff Letsinger of the incident. Letsinger told Hernandez to follow procedure by writing an incident report. Letsinger called the Mexican Consulate in Del Rio to inform them of the incident and injury.
The next morning, Letsinger called the Texas Rangers to request a formal investigation. “We have a policy here that law enforcement agencies don’t investigate themselves,” Letsinger said.
All was going along as expected with the Texas Rangers until August 5, 2005, the day the FBI subpoenaed the Edward County Sheriff’s Office for information about the incident. The sheriff was informed that the Texas Rangers were no longer leading the investigation. The FBI was.
“What told me that this was a political prosecution was that the feds didn’t even allow the local, state agencies to conclude their investigation, and if necessary a trial, before they stepped in,” Letsinger said.
Jerome Corsi, a writer for World Net Daily, uncovered important details of a letter sent to Letsinger but also copied to Norman Townsent, a supervisor in the FBI stationed in Laredo, Texas, from the Mexican Consulate in Eagle Pass demanding “that is the care of my Country that this kind of incidents against our nationals, do not remain unpunished.”
U.S. Attorney, Western District of Texas, Johnny Sutton ordered the arrest of Hernandez on June 6, 2006 and charged him with violating the civil rights of Garcia. Hernandez stood trial in federal court in Del Rio and was convicted on Dec. 1, 2006. He sits in jail, awaiting sentencing scheduled on March 19.
According to Letsinger, Edwards County spent $20,000 defending Hernandez, and even though Letsinger is pleased with the performance of Hernandez’s defense lawyer Jimmy Parks Jr., he doesn’t believe any honest effort to defend Hernandez can overcome the power of a federal prosecutor. “Nobody has the resources of the federal government,” Letsinger said.
A 1985 Supreme Court case, Garner vs. Tennessee, ruled that it is improper for law enforcement to shoot at a fleeing suspect. According to the ruling, an officer of the law must believe that he or she and-or others are facing “significant threat of death or serious physical injury.”
“A police officer may not seize a non-dangerous suspect by shooting him dead,” the decision states.
But according to Letsinger, the U.S. Attorney manipulated the facts of the case to place doubt in the intentions of Hernandez that evening. The statements of the occupants of the Suburban conflict with Hernandez’s as to the number of shots fired and when they were fired. One claimed seven shots were fired. Another claimed five shots were fired. Furthermore, some of the vehicle occupants claimed that Hernandez continued to fire a gun at them even as they were fleeing the vehicle into the dark field after the Suburban ran off the road. Hernandez wrote in his report that he fired only three shots, all at the tires of the fleeing vehicle.
The subsequent Texas Rangers investigation determined that four shots were fired based upon the number of casings at the scene, the number of bullets remaining in Hernandez’s chamber and clip, and the number of holes in the back of the Suburban (and its left tire).
Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Bauman, the attorney assigned to prosecute Hernandez, made hay out of the discrepancies of the number of shots fired, according to Letsinger. “In the heat of the moment, it is not uncommon for a law enforcement officer to lose count of the number of shots they fired, although it is something we train to do,” Letsinger said. “One of Sutton’s reasons to prosecute was that Gilmer tried to cover something up,” Letsinger said.
The tactic of highlighting the difference between Hernandez’s claim of three shots fired versus the claims of the illegal aliens placed doubt in the veracity of Hernandez’s statements in the jury’s eyes, Letsinger suggested. And if Hernandez was trying to cover something up, maybe, just maybe, Hernandez did fire on the occupants of the car as they fled in all different directions into that field that evening.
The Texas Rangers, using dogs during their investigation, found no casings or bullet fragments that would suggest that Hernandez fired at the suspects as they fled into the field.
Sutton’s office is renowned for convicting four other law enforcement agents for similar charges. But the other cases involve Border Patrol agents, not local sheriffs in the region.
Former U.S. Border Patrol agent David Sipe was convicted for use of excessive force against an illegal alien in 2001 in a McAllen courtroom. His conviction was overturned in January, but not before his life was ruined with bankruptcy and divorce.
Former U.S. Border Patrol Agent Gary Brugman spent three years in prison after a Sutton conviction for violating the civil rights of illegal aliens he captured near Eagle Pass.
Former U.S. Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean began prison sentences Jan. 17, of 11 and 12 years respectively, for their actions in the El Paso sector where they shot and wounded a Mexican drug smuggler who was granted full immunity by Sutton’s office to testify against them.
Uproar over the recent convictions is gaining volume, primarily in the conservative press. But, as World Net Daily’s Jerome Corsi noted in an exclusive interview with LIVE!, “This is not a partisan issue. Whether you are Republican or a Democrat, all want truth and justice. And as many Democrats are upset over this as Republicans.”
What is more, Sutton is a Republican, appointed to his current position by President George W. Bush. His biography states that he and the president have worked together for more than 12 years. “Mr. Sutton served as the Criminal Justice Policy Director for then-Governor George W. Bush from 1995-2000,” his Web site biography notes. He worked on the Bush transition team in 2000 before being appointed to his current position.
“We can’t allow the Mexican Consulate to dictate how we [the U.S.] enforce our laws,” Corsi explained. And while these cases seemingly have the pendulum pinned so far away from allowing flexibility of our law enforcement officers to do their job without fear of unjust prosecution, danger exists for the citizens on the border, in particular. Drugs and human smuggling flow almost freely here.
But for now, Sheriff Letsinger wants his deputy released and, if possible, pardoned. “He didn’t do anything wrong. Gilmer told the truth,” Letsinger said. Before the conviction, the U.S. Attorney offered Hernandez a plea bargain of three years probation for a guilty plea. Hernandez refused. “This young man didn’t do anything wrong, and he refused to say he had. I think that speaks to his character,” Letsinger said.
While Hernandez awaits his sentencing from Robert T. Dawson from the U.S. District Court, Western Arkansas, in Port Smith, Ark., Letsinger wrote the judge a letter requesting that Hernandez’s sentence be reduced to time served.
For more information about Deputy Gilmer Hernandez, see www.freegilmer.com .
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How can you put on trial a
How can you put on trial a man who served the law and tried to catch the bad guy? I think that the judge or the who put this guy on trial needs to visit a drug rehab facility and stay there until his/her brain return to normal parameters functionality.
This country is going to the
This country is going to the immigrants! We, American-born citizens, no longer are safe in OUR COUNTRY that is being held ransom by every illegal that crosses our borders. STOP this insanity and prosecute the real culprits here...the illegals who put our Border Patrol's and Deputy Sheriff's lives in danger every day with their ILLEGAL entry into OUR HOMELAND. Where is the justice here? This illegal has no rights in our country. We don't have any in Mexico...we're guilty in Mexico if we get into trouble with the law. Here illegals can just cross our border and receive jobs, homes, and medical care as if they own the place. You, government officials, and Mr. Prosecutor get the facts straight and make sure you are on the side of the American Citizen, and hardworking deputy sheriff doing his job to protect the rest of us and GET yourself back on the side of America not Mexico! Traitor, prosecutor...what right does the Mexican Consulate have telling us how to handle illegals and be liable for injuries caused by their illegally entering OUR COUNTRY. What's your problem? Whose side are you on? PLEASE CORRECT THIS INJUSTICE IMMEDIATELY SO MR. HERNANDEZ CAN GO HOME TO HIS WIFE AND BABY; AFTER ALL THIS IS HIS COUNTRY NOT THE ILLEGAL WOMAN'S WHO WAS INJURED INADVERTENLY. Where's your allegiance?
Hey "amazed" just remember
Hey "amazed" just remember that 99% of all U.S. Citizens are immigrants of one form or another. The only ones that I don't consider immigrants are the Native American Indians and they have an extremely low population base when compared to others. I see that you are just as shocked as the rest of us, and all of us are trying to decide if we are just plain dumbfounded or simply shocked and amazed by the behavior of our judicial system. And just as you have said the Illegal problem is out of hand, but in addition I would add that unfortunately it seems that both our judicial and governmental systems are out of hand in that respect as well.
Even Native Americans are
Even Native Americans are immigrants. They crossed over to North America through Alaska when it connected with Asia many years ago.
Prosecuting Attorney, didn't
Prosecuting Attorney, didn't do his homework or he chose not to. Officer Hernandez did not do anything wrong. I can't believe that we are going to let the Mexican Government tell us what to do. The coyote was guilty of smuggling illegals. These people lied about how many shots were fired. I believe that Sheriff Letsinger was right, if Officer Hernandez wanted to have hurt these people he would have shot at the suburban in lieu of the tires. These officers are trained to defend themselves of danger. Where is the justice here? I can't believe the jurors failed to do their job. Apparently they were not listening very well. My prayers are with the Hernandez family and Sheriff Letsinger. I hope that the Sheriff's letter to the judge will have a great outcome.
My message2
My message2
I know Sheriff Letsinger and
I know Sheriff Letsinger and know him as a respected fine Law enforcement Officer. I have worked in Law Enforcement for close to fifteen years and started my career in Kinney County just south of Edwards county. I was the sole deputy in the county working the midnignt shift for close to two years. I was grateful to have several United States Border Patrol Agents and DPS State Troopers that worked the Brackettville area come to my rescue on more than one occasion. I read what Deputy Hernandez has gone through and pray that things will work out. Only those that work in these large counties in Texas know the risks you take on a daily basis. I remember working nights catching loads of dope or illegal alien smuggling loads night after night. You would stop a vehicle,it was you and the violator 20-30 miles in the middle of no where. You had to think quick and make decisions, so that you could go home every morning to see your family. I believe that Deputy Hernandez did a great job and was cleared of any wrong. I have since joined the Federal ranks and miss my days as a real LE officer. I do think that our immigration system is out of control and this merger of DHS homeland security was done too quickly without any planning. I have signed the petition. Deputy Hernandez and Sheriff Letsinger my families prayers are with you guys.
Whatever happened to
Whatever happened to following the evidence. If the evidence points out that there were four shots because of the casings then why listen to what the other people said. apparently they were telling lies. second, ok so according to the case Garner vs. Tennessee no officer should have any use for there gun. I mean if the officer was gonna be runned over isn't that a clear sign of danger. so what he had to be hit run over or "killed" in order to shoot his gun? i would consider almost being ran over a “significant threat of death or serious physical injury.” So according to this laws are messed up according to who the laws apply to. From what I have read here laws only apply to civilians and not officers of the law. My heart goes out Deputy Sherriff Hernandez and his family for getting screwed over like this. My heart goes out all officers of the law that try to protect the people and get screwed over by their own Government.
This kind of stuff is going
This kind of stuff is going to have to be MADE TO STOP or there is going to have to be a lot of retroactive apologies made to the British for what George Washington and his people did back before 1800.
You're right, maybe we
You're right, maybe we should have said "no taxation without (good) representation". Versus what whe have know which is taxation with really crappy representation.
Does anybody in El Paso,
Does anybody in El Paso, Texas know the home address of Johnny Sutton?
If so, please put it on this blog. He must be delt with.
Easy there now, "whatever".
Easy there now, "whatever". Yes the man you are referring to is a worm who is overly convinced of his own rectitude and has completely forgotten that men all men can be and are fallible "as he has so undeniably exhibited by his own failings in these matters". However insinuating that we do anything "else" other than what the law has put down would be to stoop far below his level.
That treasonous snake Johnny
That treasonous snake Johnny Sutton has his job because he is an enabler of that other treasonous snake George W. Bush. Both should be hanged as traitors (after a fair trial of course). They would be given the justice they have denied others. And don't worry George, we will let you swear to tell the truth on your holy book, The Quran.
If we are trully in a war (on terror) as these scums say we are, then acts to provide aid and comfort to the enemy are treason. Not that 'undocumented immigrants' are the enemy but leaving the border open to them also leaves it open to Al Qaida, MS-13, and others bent on our destruction. That is clear aid and comfort and THAT is treason! Traitors in time of war are either shot if they are military (Commander in Chief) or hanged if they are civilian (Federal Prosecutor).
May I suggest to the Texas Rangers that they kick the front door down in the dead of the night of that piece of human crap, Sutton, arrest the dirtbag while pointing machine guns at his terrified wife and children, and put him on trial for his life. Next do the same to that bastard Bush when he shows his filthy, lie infested face in Texas again at Crawford and put him on trial too.
I thought Texas hanged it's murderers. C'mon Rangers! The whole country is counting on you!
Somebody give me a big 'ole Texas Yee-Haw!
I do believe the Commander
I do believe the Commander in Chief is a civilian, not military.
What about those rolling
What about those rolling police chases I see on Fox News about once a week? They place those spike bars along eight lanes of California traffic to stop a Kia with 22" rims. What kind of cruel act is that, and doesn't that present MORE DANGER to the innocent travelers on the opposite side of the road? What's stopping that lil' Kia from jumping the guard rail and colliding with head on traffic, maybe even a school bus. Where's our fed prosecutors going after the traffic division in those situation.
This stinks on Anna Nicole Smith ice.
The Reverend Ike. Amen.
Sheriff Letsinger mentioned
Sheriff Letsinger mentioned that in a big city, should a suspect flee, they have tons of resources to call in for backup. Not so in Edwards County, Texas at just past midnight. Letsinger mentioned that had this incident happened in San Antonio, they have access to spikes, and they would have been deployed in lieu of shooting out the tires. Letsinger also surmizes that having the Suburban drive over spikes at a high rate of speed could be more dangerous than Deputy Hernandez's bullets puncturing a tire at a slower speed, before the Suburban had time to accelerate.
There is a common thread
There is a common thread here: The Mexican Government. Every time the Mexicans say "Jump!" Bush & Co. say, "How high?" Obviously, the Mexican government is blackmailing the Bush family. They most likely have some very "interesting" evidence of the Bush boys, George and Jeb, from their early years boozing it up, doing cocaine and flying in-and-out of Mexico. The Mexican government may even have evidence of cocaine smuggling by Bush from the 1980s when Dubya was out of control and addled by drug and alchohol abuse from excess partying. The Mexican government had been "in the loop" during the Contra drugs-for-guns-for-money business Bush Sr. was involved in in the 1980s along with Bill Clinton. Does Mena, Arkansas and Barry Seal ring any bells for you? This would answer the question as to why the last three US Presidents have rolled-over-and-played-dead every time the Mexican government made unrealistic and unwarrented demands upon them to keep our border wide-open to Mexican drug trafficking and the Mexican migrant invasion of our sovereign nation. So, don't lay all the blame on the prosecutor, he is just following orders from the top like any good little Nazi. Sutton works for Bush and Bush works for his blackmailer, the Mexican government, not We the People.
On the Hernandez conviction
On the Hernandez conviction I think you should list all the jurors names on this site so we can see what kind of FOOLS are serving on jury's. Breaking the law takes away your rights and the smuggler and all seven of the illegals should be deported. When the lady's husband went to San Antonio to get his wife he should have been deported also because you know he had to be here illegally too. Blow the bridges and fill the Rio Grande with pirrahnas and let them that can swim accross stay.
Drug smuggling certainly
I don't know their names,
I don't know their names, but face it; they were 12 people that weren't clever enough or smart enough to get out of jury duty.
Here in California they
Here in California they don't let folks get out of their civic duty and require all but the aged and infirm to serve jury duty. We have been doing this for some time now, at least since after the OJ jury debacle. Perhaps if all you "clever or smart" people out there took your constitutional responsibilities seriously, you wouldn't have morons making these type of decisions for you. Think about it for a few seconds. How "clever or smart" does that make you?
It was a joke! I have been
It was a joke!
I have been summoned for jury duty 4 times now. Three times in my old home state and once here. I reported for all of them. One of them involved train travel to Federal Court.
When I was summoned for Val Verde County, there were about 75% no-shows. Pitiful.
You're doing better than I
You're doing better than I am. I've been summoned 4 times in just the past 4 years. I was kinda figuring that they knew the day I got out of the military and that I had to make up for the past decade + of not being able to serve due to being deployed. Such is life. I have been chosen once out of those 4 times, but fortunately "for me at least" that one ended up being cancelled. But that 75% no show would explain why I've been called back so danged often. Civic duty is exaclty that, we must all sacrifice for the good of the whole.
Val Verde didn't let the ink
Val Verde didn't let the ink dry on my voter registration before calling me. Two weeks after getting my Texas drivers license (I checked the box to register to vote) I got my summons to appear.
I've been voting since 1980.
I've been voting since 1980. Never summoned. To bad you can't volunteer, but that would lead to partisan issues. Maybe they could develop a test and jury pool system for those who would offer to serve. You have to pass the test and serve on jury's at least five counties from your primary home residence. It would be costly, but more efficent system and far more ethical sentence. The court system would clear more cases. And this jury of 12 of your dumb ass peer's sure wouldn't happen.
But what the hell do I know. I'm a non existing preacher that's never been summoned.
The Reverend Ike. Amen.
This story makes me see
This story makes me see red!
What about Deputy Hernandez’s civil rights? Why do the supposed civil rights of a person that entered this country illegally and was an accomplice to an attempted felony assualt on a police officer trump that of an good cop just trying to do his job? This is so wrong, on so many levels.
And this over-zealous prosecutor should be staked to a fire ant hill and covered with honey. The scumbag acually has the stones to lock up a guy that was simply doing his job. Too bad it wasn't him out there almost being run over by a 5,000 pound vehicle.
Shakespere was right: Kill 'em all!
You're danged skippy Diablo,
You're danged skippy Diablo, you've got my vote on this one, " And this over-zealous prosecutor should be staked to a fire ant hill and covered with honey."
I think that we should put the prosecuter in a fight, flee or die scenario and see just how he reacts and just exactly how much he remembers of the actual scenario, since he has proven to be so critical of others memories of crucial high tension moments. I can tell you from personal experience that you just react and you react according to training, you don't remember details very easily if at all. That's the way the human mind works and this lawyer knows that and is using it to prosecute innocents for some hidden agenda.
Hey mister lawyer, again, if you're reading this and you're at home telling your significant other that they are attacking me because they don't understand what I'm doing or what I'm trying to accomplish here, "YOURE RIGHT" we don't and it will spell your professional downfall if you don't clean up your act and do it soon. That is if you're not doomed in a professioal sense already :) and I really hope that you are. I'm personally calling every lawmaker that I know and I really, really hope that others are doing the same. I may not be able to do anyting about the ones you've put away, but I can and will do something about your continued ability to do what you've done to others.
You know I have a question
You know I have a question here. Since when have we decided that the word of a person, who commits a crime, is more believable than the word of the person trying to stop the crime?? Someone Please Tell Me. Has this prosecuting attorneys office lost its collective mind? Where’s the case prosecuting the Coyote? Where is the case prosecuting the illegal immigrants? Where is the case for assaulting an officer with a deadly weapon? Where is the case for prosecuting for fleeing from an officer of the law? Where is the case for prosecuting for fleeing the scene of a crime? This is a really large load of bovine fecal matter.
For some silly reason it would appear that this prosecuting attorney thinks that giving freedom to crooks to commit further crimes is not a problem as long as it takes down an officer of the law. Who incidentally might just possibly have made an error but not necessarily committed a crime. No it is not OK to commit a crime to stop a crime but neither is it OK to accuse someone of a crime and convict them of it, take away their life and liberty by using word smithing and courtroom antics just so that his offices win loss statistics can make him look favorable.
Stop me if I’m wrong here, but isn’t Texas one of those states where you can actually defend yourself if you are attacked? I know you can’t in some “turn the other cheek” states but it would be ashamed to find Texas heading in that direction.
All I see here, is a case against the one honest person who actually stuck around the scene of the crime, stood his ground, did what was right, and now we are showing him that doing what was “right” was “wrong”. Way to go Mr. Prosecuting Attorney, way to go. My hat’s off to you for your single handed and single minded destruction of our Peace Officer’s confidence in our legal system. By the way Mr. Attorney, if you’re perchance reading this, and not that you care, you should but probably don’t; I have lost all my faith in your ability to honestly do any part of your job. Everything you have prosecuted since your time in office should be reviewed with an eye towards your manipulations of the system and your complete and utter inability to understand the differences between right and wrong.
You will see more of this.
You will see more of this. The feds are headhunting on the behalf of the North American Union. Google SPP, Trans-Texas corridor, and the Amero. You will find out that we are in the process of unifying Canada, Mexico, and the U.S. without our consent. Read it and weep.
I pray to God that this
I pray to God that this touches the hearts of the men and women who have the ability and the power to seek the truth and the influence to make the difference.
This should concern us all. We must always fight for the truth. Today it is them, tomorrow it will be us.
Excerpt from Joe Hyde story Southwest Texas Live: "Before the conviction, the U.S. Attorney offered Hernandez a plea bargain of three years probation for a guilty plea. Hernandez refused. “This young man didn’t do anything wrong, and he refused to say he had. I think that speaks to his character,” Letsinger said."
This is what troubles me the most. What does this teach our law enforcement officers who protect us? 10 years imprisonment if convicted or 3 years probation from a plea bargain with a guilty plea? My job or my life?
"For the law holds, that it is better that ten guilty persons escape, then that one innocent suffer." Sir William Blackstone
"To us this quote means that to let a few guilty persons go is better than to punish one innocent person for a crime they did not commit". -Sir Kayvon Justin