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Wayne Gilchrest: “Under those circumstances, with the supervisors aware of the actions of the border agents, the defendant subsequently…”

On the recordJuly 25, 2007
Under those circumstances, with the supervisors aware of the actions of the border agents, the defendant subsequently was found out to be wounded, under those circumstances, in a Federal court, did the prosecutor take into consideration those mitigating circumstances that border agents are often, and in your case, in the area where you represent, a very dangerous situation? This was a known drug smuggler. He had smuggled in $1 million worth of drugs. He had, apparently, a violent past. What sentencing guidelines did the prosecutor use to give these border agents 11 years and then 12 years?
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Wayne Gilchrest
Maryland
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Questioning the sentencing of border agents involved in a case with a known drug smuggler.

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