In a followup to the tragic car wreck story, the officials involved in letting this illegal alien murderer get back behind the wheel of a car are all scrambling to justify why they dropped the ball.

A Harris County prosecutor, criticized for negotiating in 2005 a reduced drunken driving penalty for a man now accused of intoxicated manslaughter in the death of two women, said Wednesday she believed a jury would have been equally lenient.
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If convicted of a felony in the 2005 case, Gomez-Gutierrez would have faced two to 10 years in prison.

But more importantly, he would’ve likely been deported.

Yet [assistant Harris County district attorney Colleen] Barnett believes the terms she negotiated in the 2005 plea agreement were justified based on the fact that Gomez-Gutierrez had no violent criminal past and none of three DWIs involved an accident or injury.

And now we see just how violent and criminal a DWI can be. Unfortunately, for the victims, it’s a little too late.

It also appears the illegals understand our immigration laws and prosecution better than the folks hired to enforce such laws. When Barnett offered Gomez-Gutierrez a plea deal with two options of either pleading guilty to a felony and receive five years probation, 30 days confinement, $500 fine, 160 hours of community service and substance abuse treatment or pleading guilty to a misdemeanor and spend a year in county jail, he took the misdemeanor because, as Barnett says:

He might not have chosen the felony probation out of fear of deportation, Barnett said, adding sometimes defendants think it’s “easier to sit out the jail time.”

ICE also showed no interest in dealing harshly with this repeat offender.

Harris County Sheriff’s Sgt. Dana Wolfe said federal immigration authorities are notified whenever an illegal immigrant is booked into the jail, like Gomez-Gutierrez.

“They then had an opportunity to place them on hold (for deportation). But it was totally up to them,” she said.

Deason, the immigration spokeswoman, said she could not say if the agency was notified until she gets the file.

“We were trying to focus on worst of the worst, felonies such as aggravated sexual assaults and murders back in 2005,” she said.

Well, now you got a murderer. I guess it’s okay to deal with him now.

Tragic.

On a side note: Hat’s off to Houston Chronicle reporter Cindy Horswell for not being afraid to call the illegal an illegal.

Gomez-Gutierrez, a 25-year-old illegal immigrant from Mexico, is now facing his fourth drunken driving charge.

1. […] UPDATE: Here’s an update to the story, including reactions from the prosecutor who let Gomez-Gutierrez off the hook and ICE officials who may have missed a chance to deport him… multiple times. 5 Comments » […]

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2. […] If there is one thing that approaches the levels of disgust that we felt the other day, when we learned of yet another illegal immigrant (one of the wonderful, hard-working, honest people that President Jorge wants to give full amnesty and citizenship to) driving around while drunk as a skunk, ending up murdering a 5 months pregnant young woman and her mother, then it would be watching the worthless, overpaid, underworked, brickheaded, bureaucratic suits running around in circles trying to defend the fact that he wasn’t deported, in spite of having THREE FUCKING PRIOR DUI CONVICTIONS under his belt. […]

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3. How about calling him what he really is: a CRIMINAL alien.
   He broke the law and became a criminal as soon as he snuck in here. I am so fed up with these criminal aliens destroying MY country.
   When is the government going to do something? When one of THEIR friends/relatives is killed by a criminal alien?

   Comment by sandy — 6:33 am
   

4. As far as I am concerned, he should get what he wants. He needs a nice long stay in the USA. Preferably in Huntsville Texas. I can think of a nice big house where he can live for a few years.

   Comment by Big White Hat — 8:04 am
   

5. This drunken asshole is going to be locked away for quite a long time and that’s real nice, but who pays his room and board? Not Mexico, they should but they wont. We will.

   Those three innocent people that were murdered by this taco consuming drunk are going to be dead for quite a long time as well. Nothing can change this.

   Thanks, Texas, for putting some feet to the fire. Somebody dropped the ball big time The finger pointing will probably go on forever. You did some research and we know who did or didn’t do what they shoulda done when they shoulda done it and then they didn’t.

   If something was actually done perhaps we wouldn’t have had this drunken Illegal Invader on OUR freeways killing people. We all see the results of this incompetence.

   The sad thing is that this story is it is repeating itself as we speak. More Americans die due to Criminal Mexican Invaders than are killed in the Iraq war.

   http://www.onenewsnow.com/2007/02/more_americans_killed_by_illeg.php

   Comment by Bungee — 5:24 pm
   

6. We seem to be adept at uncovering these startling facts after-the-fact, as in the case of the criminal illegal immigrant cited here, but I wonder if there’s not a means available to us by which we can get ‘ahead of the curve’?

   What I mean to suggest is that we now have incredible access to information that could be used to apply pressure (sorry I don’t have the answers here, just expressing wonderment) on the prosecutors / judges / process and raise the public awareness to a level at which ‘negotiated settlements’ are no longer acceptable.

   This should apply to both illegal -and- legal persons.

   Comment by CallMePatrick — 7:59 am
   

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