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Ramos, Compean Commutation under Review by U.S. Pardon Attorney
CNSNews.com
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
By Fred Lucas, Staff Writer

(CNSNews.com) – In the waning days of the Bush administration, the Department of Justice (DOJ) is mulling whether to recommend a commutation for the two former Border Patrol agents jailed for more than a decade each for shooting a Mexican drug smuggler in the buttocks.
 
The case is now before the DOJ’s Pardon Attorney Donald Rodgers. The Office of Pardon Attorney works in consultation with the attorney general’s office to assist the president, who has sole power of clemency in federal cases under the Constitution.
 
Ultimately, it is the president’s call regardless of what the Office of Pardon Attorney recommends.

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