Mexican man convicted of murder for killing Border Patrol agent with drug-laden vehicle

[alp227]

Source: Associated Press

SAN DIEGO — Federal jurors deliberated for just two hours Tuesday before convicting a Mexican man of murder in the killing of a U.S. Border Patrol agent three years ago at a popular southeastern California campground.

Jesus Navarro testified during the two-week trial that he wasn’t even in the marijuana-filled Hummer that struck and killed Border Patrol Agent Luis Aguilar at the Imperial Sand Dunes, where drug smugglers have long mixed in with recreational dune riders. Navarro also said he was forced to confess to the crime under interrogation by Mexican officials.

But jurors rejected that testimony, as well as defense arguments that questioned the credibility of drug smugglers’ testimony and the reliability of witnesses who identified Navarro as the driver of the vehicle in the January 2008 incident.

Authorities said the Border Patrol was chasing Navarro’s Hummer and the 32-year-old Aguilar was killed as he lay down a spike strip to stop the vehicle. Prosecutors argued that Navarro intentionally struck Aguilar as he was fleeing back to Mexico.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/jury_deliberates_murder_charge_for_man_accused_of_running_over_border_patrol_agent_in_calif/2011/04/12/AFPaTnSD_story.html

[ProudDad]

1. Two more victims of the phony "War on Drugs(tm)"

Such bullshit... :puke:

[Newest Reality]

2. The war on "some" drugs.

The pharmaceutical pushers are doing just fine.

In fact, the way things are going, lots of chemicals are going to be needed to keep the population complacent as the massive cognitive dissonance increases and more and more people around you start to suddenly pop as if you are sitting in a hot pan of oil with a bunch of popcorn kernels.

If I were an investor, I would count on Big-Pharma for good returns. They push their drugs because then can!

[era veteran]

3. I think three sales reps for every MD

No wonder