After spending 181 days in a Mexican jail for accidentally crossing the border with legally owned firearms, a Mexican judge has ordered Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi back to jail after Tahmooressi waited long and hard for his first court date.
Abandoned by Obama, who has not lifted one finger to help this Marine who has saved the lives of fellow Marines in combat, Tahmooressi must now wait till August 4th for his next court date.
The 26-year-old veteran of two tours in Afghanistan was finally able to tell his story to a judge, after his case had been delayed by both Mexico’s unpredictable legal system and his own trouble settling on a lawyer. It was not immediately clear what Tahmooressi said at the evidentiary hearing, which was closed to the public. The next hearing in the case is scheduled for August 4.
Despite the judge’s ruling, Tahmooressi’s attorney, Fernando Benitez, told reporters that he was confident that the Marine’s case was on the right track. Benitez said that his client’s statement to the judge was “sound and made perfect sense,” and claimed that irregularities with Tahmooressi’s detention were grounds for dismissal of the case. The attorney said that his client was not provided with consular services for nearly eight hours after he was detained, nor did he have access to an adequate translator.
In addition, Benitez said that the order to search Tahmooressi’s vehicle was dated March 28, three days before the Marine crossed the border.
Benitez had earlier sought to dampen hopes that federal Judge Victor Octavio Luna Escobedo would free Tahmooressi, although supporters, including his mother, Jill Tahmooressi, had held out hope.
Tahmooressi has been held since March 31, when he accidentally drove into Mexico at the San Ysidro, Calif., Port of Entry late March 31, after becoming disoriented from poorly lit street signs and being in a position on the road unable to make a last ditch U-turn. His family believes his post-traumatic stress disorder also may have contributed to his confusion. He was charged with violating Mexico’s strict gun laws because he had three registered guns, along with all his worldly possessions, in his vehicle.
Tahmooressi appeared in court on April 28, but that hearing was gaveled before it began after the judge learned Tahmooressi had his attorney fired the night before for advising Tahmooressi to commit what the family considered to be perjury.
After Wednesday’s hearing, Tahmooressi was taken back to El Hongo Prison in Tecate under heavily-armed guard.
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$#%&!@* ALL THE GOVERMENT MUSLIM SUPPORTING BASTARDS
This is awful. He not only doesn’t help veterans, he won’t even get our Marine out of a Mexican jail. Maybe he’s waiting until right before the November elections to get him out so he’ll look good and more Dems will get elected to Congress.
My blood BOILING
How dair him say that??? Shoot him RIGHT NOW
WHY DOESN’T GOVT. DEMAND HIS RELEASE AS HE SERVED WITH HONOR? quote; grand pa
This is truely unforgiveable, i understand totally that a border law was broken accidentally by this sgt, but look what our government has overlooked and let these mexicans get away with in america!!! Eleven million of these illegal $#%&!@*birds are here illegally, forming gangs, killing our border patrol men, breaking the law each and every day by just being here illegally! They march on washington demanding more money for picking tomato’s, might just as well spit in our face and take our homes from us, thats what they want! And our american made a mistake and broke a MEXICAN law and he is rotting in a pisshole mexican jail!!! Im so ashamed of this obama $#%&!@* i coul just frigging explode!!!!!!!!! Come on america, what are we waiting for??????
Why the $#%&!@* his he still there oh that’s right we have a Muslim terrorist for a so-called President not mine and I will never accept him as my President we have no executive branch of government he is treating his power as the tyrant running our country into a third world country
Lets get the Black Opts out there, lets show Mexico who is really the smart ones, brave ones, and ready for a fight
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