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SENATE MEMORIAL 81

48

TH LEGISLATURE

- STATE OF NEW MEXICO -

FIRST SESSION

, 2007

INTRODUCED BY

Shannon Robinson

A MEMORIAL

REQUESTING GOVERNOR RICHARDSON TO ISSUE A STATE PARDON FOR

IGNACIO RAMOS AND JOSE ALONSO COMPEAN.

WHEREAS, two former United States border patrol agents,

Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean, were each sentenced last

month to more than a decade in federal prison for shooting a

Mexican drug smuggler during the performance of their duties as

border patrol agents; and

WHEREAS, the agents said that they shot in self-defense,

and federal lawmakers have called for a congressional

investigation into the agents' prosecutions; and

WHEREAS, other developments in the case are that the union

representing most rank-and-file border patrol agents

established a legal defense fund for the agents, that civilian

border watch groups have asked the United States attorney

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general's office to review the case and that there will be

appeals through the courts to throw out the guilty verdicts

against the agents;

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE OF THE STATE

OF NEW MEXICO that the governor be requested to grant the two

border patrol agents a state pardon; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this memorial be

transmitted to the governor.

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