1.19.2009

Border Guards Sentence Commuted

At the very last minute. Background on Wikipedia here. I really don't know much about it other than the right wing has been yelling about this case for years. (And I saw Texas Republican Representative Ted Poe -- a former hang em high judge -- claims on TV that he had read the entire transcript of the trial and say the convictions were a travesty. I remember that because I seriously doubted he read it.)