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Juan Patricio Trial Summary Part 4
In the cross-examination Enrique Moreno again went over the list of things that VB didn’t know, and didn’t find out, when he arrived on the scene. He didn’t know the number of officers, their position, who was in charge, whether progress had been made, whether the subject had a means of escape…the list went on. And all of those things were important, weren’t they?
VB agreed that they were.
According to his training, a Border Patrol agent was required to assess these things before resorting to deadly force, was he not?
He was
Juan Patricio Trial Summary Part 3
April 10, 2008. Today, Thursday, was the fourth day of the trial. The prosecution began by calling Irene Quijada to the stand. Before today I had known Juan Patricio through a single photograph (taken at Annunciation House shortly before his…
Juan Patricio Trial Summary Part 2
April 8, 2008. The prosecution called Agent VB to the stand.
He walked up from his seat at the defense table, a few feet away from where the parents of Juan Patricio were sitting. I don’t think Cesar and Irene…
Juan Patricio Trial Summary Part 1
April 7, 2008, a little after nine o’clock in the morning. Five men stood before the judge with their right hands raised. They wore suits in varying shades of gray with creases running down the backs of their trouser legs.…
Civil trial in teen’s Border Patrol death winds down
Illegal immigrant’s parents are suing the U.S. government over showdown with agent that left the 19-year-old dead
By ALICIA A. CALDWELL
Associated Press
EL PASO A 19-year-old illegal immigrant shot to death by a U.S. Border Patrol agent four years…