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FEDS SHOULD KNOW WHEN TO LEAVE WELL ENOUGH ALONE
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By <strong>Juan Montoya</strong><br />It's bad enough for Ray Marchan's attorney Noe Garza Jr. to have been defeated resoundingly by the decision of a federal jury and have his client found guilty on all seven counts of racketeeting and bribery.<br /><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Now he has to contend with an assistant U.S. Attorney who would have his pound of flesh for statements made in the course of defending his client against the full resources of the federal government. He has asked that Garza forfeit his attorney’s fees or pay $50,000, or that the judge impose sanction him in some other way.<br />Not satisfied that Garza has publicly apologized, prosecutors now want to humiliate him and to make an example out of him to quell a growing sentiment in the community that the brash attorney might have been on to something and to keep others from emulating him.</div>To make matters worse, by pressing the issue that he wants federal judge Andrew S. Hanen to deliver him Garza's head upon a silver platter, Michael J. Wynne opens up the federal prosecutors' office to scrutiny by the local community.<br /><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">We were under the impression that comments made by attorneys in the course of a trial were in some way protected and that they had some sort of immunity from prosecution. Now we see that even they could be sanctioned if the feathers of a federal prosecutors have been ruffled by a defense attorney voicing what is being said outside the court: that the prosecution of Marchan for paying a paltry $11,000 to federal witness Abel Limas while letting others walk who gave Limas bribes (inlcuding some prominent white attorneys) smacks of racism and selective prosecution.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJZLOMNARMEEeDA-S5tLIsWXpi_YeeZk944DRFbFLvdpAmKgBmS5xJUU1yvd-uf74sax6CYNk2M2cahwpxO3_JTf_sfJwJM6hpLW462QgWNHoRemT2YX30efhYt5ldmAPSt-koXNeGAKE/s1600/KhatRat2.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="220" rca="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJZLOMNARMEEeDA-S5tLIsWXpi_YeeZk944DRFbFLvdpAmKgBmS5xJUU1yvd-uf74sax6CYNk2M2cahwpxO3_JTf_sfJwJM6hpLW462QgWNHoRemT2YX30efhYt5ldmAPSt-koXNeGAKE/s320/KhatRat2.png" width="320" /></a>There, we've said it. Are we also going to face the wrath of Wynne and his fellows at the federal bunker and be called before Hanen for voicing the opinion of the people on Brownsville streets?</div>Wynne, according to reports by cutting-edge reporter Emma Perez-Treviño, said Garza's voicing of these sentiments “crossed the line from zealous advocate to inflammatory rabble rouser.â€<br />He said the statements "accused the government â€" including members of the prosecution and the investigating agency â€" of being racist, and did so publicly in Federal Court.â€<br />The federal prosecutor states that “the accusations of racism most certainly resonated in the minds of those present in court at the time they were made, and are now memorialized in the transcript, court records, newspapers and beyond.â€<br />As far as we can tell, the slam dunk on the Marchan verdict indicates that the men and women of the predominantly Mexican-American jury didn't buy Garza's base appeal to race, doesn't it? <br />Hey, Wynne, where were you when your fellow prosecutor Jodi Young donned a Ku Klux Klan hood and Mexican peon sombrero and played the clown before a mixed crowd of retired and active federal employees including U.S. Customs, ICE, and federal court clerks at a very public golf course during a charity tournament?<br />If Garza spoke a few words, didn't Young's actions speak volumes (never mind the thousand words) by dressing in that get up before people who are under oath to protect the civil rights of all the residents of this country?<br />Just a gag, you say? Perhaps it could be considered that if you weren't a member of one of the ethnic groups that have been intimidated, lynched and burned by the KKK or who are insulted by the sight of a federal prosecutor wearing the hat of a Mexican peon before them. After all, prosecutors depend on these "peons" to make them look good in court, don't they?<br />Where was your outrage then?<br />But then again, those groups don't hold the full power of our federal government in their hands and want to use it in a fashion that can only be called vindictive upon a defense attorney who knew he was defending a lost cause to begin with.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-6964915158090119581?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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ERIN HERNANDEZ'S MOB CONTINUES TO HOUND BEGUM
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By <strong>Juan Montoya</strong><br />Coming just days after the rabid supporting cast of Erin Hernandez Garcia's supporters for JP 2-2 set upon opponent (and top vote getter) Yolanda Begum at the Villa del Sol High Rise dining area for the elderly, the gang was at it again.<br />In what can only be described as a campaign of intimidation and harassment, the same crowd â€" excluding Erin's mother Norma and the candidate herself â€" once again crashed a Begum campaign visit to a day care center and created a spectacle before the elderly clients there.<br /><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqrsbq1T0YteG9AWAipGw0XBBzPDemUdxgBjhY8Oa28rzcBRHEZtdHKhk7RBnHB1QGARHdbbWKgoV5sjdNTO_YaewDfH5GrxJ2aqzAXSks9NQlvR7wl42apkaFhXYphngz9GLucN7tI_s/s1600/torches_and_pitchforks.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="236" rca="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqrsbq1T0YteG9AWAipGw0XBBzPDemUdxgBjhY8Oa28rzcBRHEZtdHKhk7RBnHB1QGARHdbbWKgoV5sjdNTO_YaewDfH5GrxJ2aqzAXSks9NQlvR7wl42apkaFhXYphngz9GLucN7tI_s/s320/torches_and_pitchforks.jpg" width="320" /></a>As we have heard, when Begum and some of her supporters arrived at the day care, there was one Hernandez supporter there and they worked around him passing out her cards. He then picked up his cell phone and called in reinforcements.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Within 10 minutes, a gang of Erin's politiqueros arrived in force and begin passing out cards and shouting at the elderly clients gathered there not to vote for Begum because she wasn't a lawyer, the mantra of choice for the Hernandez supporters.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">The scene again got ugly and a near confrontation erupted at the viciousnmess of the Hernandez supporters' attacks upon Begum and her workers.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Apparently, Ernie and his family believe that the votes they have harvested over the years from these centers are theirs exclusively. They are not about to stand idly by and allow some other candidate to give the voters a choice if they can help it.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">By now, it has become evident that the rules of engagement in this election is going to be one of "no holds barred, and take no prisoners."</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">After the fiasco created by Erin, her mother Norma and her rabid supporters at the Villa Del Sol, Begum returned to offer her apologies to the residents who had been present during the unpleasant spectacle created by the Hernandez possee.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Who else has a hand in devising this type of strategy besides the Hernandez? And where are the Democratic Party officers to reign in this type of unbecoming behavior? Or is it an anything goes mentality that will guide us to July 31?</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-2301131895521920025?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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