cross-posted from: https://ibbit.at/post/179766
Two ICE officers have been placed on administrative leave and are accused of lying under oath about an incident in Minneapolis last month involving two Venezuelan immigrants, one of whom was shot in the leg by an agent. After the incident, the two Venezuelan men, Alfredo Alejandro Aljorna and Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis, were charged with felony assault, falsely accused of beating an ICE officer with a broom and snow shovel. Sosa-Celis was shot in the right thigh. While the Department of Homeland Security originally claimed the two men had attacked the agent, video evidence and witness testimonies contradicted the accusations. Federal prosecutors in Minneapolis last week dropped the felony assault charges against Aljorna and Sosa-Celis.
Criminal defense attorney Frederick Goetz, who represents Aljorna, says the admission of wrongdoing is “unusual” given that the Justice Department has been zealous in carrying out President Trump’s anti-immigration agenda. It was “not only a dismissal, but a dismissal with prejudice, meaning that my client can never be charged again for anything to do with this incident,” says Goetz.
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So when does the doj bring charges for perjury since the agents lied under oath?
If people didn’t catch this on their cellphones it would not have gone this way
Maybe other people can use this case in their own cases as proof that police lie and their evidence cannot be trusted.
Public service positions lying under oath should result in the mandatory maximum sentence for the related crime.
I think it should be a multiplier. They should be sentenced even more harshly because they betrayed the public trust.
That’s why I went with mandatory maximum. No one ever gets maximum sentences. Not even clearly documented and admitted serial killers.
Fair enough
It was “not only a dismissal, but a dismissal with prejudice, meaning that my client can never be charged again for anything to do with this incident,” says Goetz.
This makes the good news even better.
