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Bush Commutes Sentences of Border Patrol Agents (Updated)

January 19th, 2009 · 5 Comments

Fox News just announced that President George W. Bush has commuted the sentences of — but not pardoned — two unjustly-convicted U.S. Border Patrol agents, Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean.
According to an Associated Press report citing a senior administration official, Bush decided against a pardon and opted instead to commute the prison sentences he believed [...]

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Cole Calls on Bush to Pardon Border Partrol Agents

December 10th, 2008 · 5 Comments

Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.) sent a letter to President George W. Bush late yesterday asking him to commute the sentences and issue pardons for Border Patrol agents Jose Compean and Ignacio Ramos.
In October 2006, Ramos and Compean were each sentenced to more than a decade in prison after shooting an illegal immigrant who was believed [...]

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Blogger Launches ‘Pardon Peter Lynch’ Effort

April 4th, 2008 · 6 Comments

“I don’t feel welcome in this state anymore, and I feel really bad about that. It’s a beautiful state here. After my six months of probation is completed with no other unknown caveats to this coming up, I want to go. I want to be somewhere other than here.” — Peter Lynch

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