Hidalgo County Sheriff: 'I Plead Guilty'
Hidalgo County Sheriff: 'I plead guilty'
McALLEN — Five words sealed the fate of the man who was Hidalgo County's highest-ranking law enforcement official. “I plead guilty, your honor,” former Sheriff Lupe Treviño said Monday morning when … In the back of the courtroom, two agents from ICE …
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67% Favor Treatment over Prosecution for Heroine, Cocaine Use
However, people seldom talk about the harder drugs, the drugs that will likely never be legalized (at least not in the foreseeable future), but can lead to users serving serious time behind bars — like cocaine and heroine. Do You Know the Difference …
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Is New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez the Next Sarah Palin?
The politicians Martinez saw on the nightly news all seemed to be lawyers, she once told an interviewer, so after getting her degree in criminal justice from the University of Texas-El Paso, she enrolled at the University of Oklahoma's law school …
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President Obama commutes sentence made longer by typo
The error was made in a report used to sentence convicted drug dealer Ceasar Cantu of Katy, Texas, and resulted in 3 1/2 extra years being added to his prison term. Obama took the extraordinary step of commuting Cantu's sentence from 15 years to 11 1/2 …
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