Plea Bargain Bill Ritter
Listening to the Hugh Hewitt show the other day I learned of a unfolding scandal involving the Bill Ritter actions as Denver's DA where he "plea bargained alien felons charged with serious crimes to the non-deportable offense of trespass on agricultural lands".
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What Ritter cannot explain away is a policy that purposefully used an obscure and absurd charge --trespass on agricultural land-- as a means of keeping alien felons from being deported. Employing this tactic not only undermines the legitimacy of the prosecutor's office --"agricultural trespass" is a "crime" completely different from the crimes the felons were charged with, not a "lesser included" offense-- the purposeful frustration of the deportation laws kept criminals in the country who ought to have been sent to their home country. |
Source: http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/01bacd1f-b81b-449d-a185-2fb226bc2abc
Apparently, the number of cases with Ritter's handiwork is approaching 200 and it may go above that. You can read Hugh Hewitt's full post and the article in the Denver Post for all the info.