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Senior mechanical engineering major Matt
Dreiss cuts a metal rod for an experiment in
his engineering class Tuesday afternoon.
Dreiss will use the metal for an experiment
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pulled apart.
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HOUSTON — The mother
of one of three federal agents
convicted this week of not help
ing an injured illegal immigrant
blames politics, overzealous
prosecutors and juror confusion
for the verdict that could land
her son in federal prison.
Maria Gomez, a third-genera
tion U.S. citizen whose grandfa
ther immigrated to flee Pancho
Villa’s revolutionaries in the
1910s, said federal prosecutors
went after her only child, former
Immigration and Naturalization
Service agent Louis Gomez, and
two colleagues to help mend
fences with Mexican president
Vicente Fox.
“The whole thing was polit
ical from the beginning,’’ Mrs.
Gomez told The Associated
Press by telephone Tuesday
from her Hill Country home
north of San Antonio. “Two
years ago (Texas) executed one
of theirs, so they gave Fox
three little shrimp served up on
a platter.”
A federal jury Monday found
Louis Rey Gomez, 37; Richard
Henry Gonzales, 37; and Carlos
Reyna, 43, all of San Antonio,
guilty of willfully denying
Serafin Olvera-Carrera medical
care after the illegal immigrant
was paralyzed from the neck
down during a March 25, 2001,
raid in Bryan. Each faces up to
10 years in prison.
Mrs. Gomez said the extraor
dinary prosecution — which
took government attorneys to
seven states and parts of rural
Mexico looking for witnesses —
was done to restore goodwill
with Fox’s administration.
She cites the much-publicized
tiff last summer that started when
Fox canceled a visit to Bush’s
ranch after Texas ignored his
pleas and executed a Mexican-
American drug smuggler for
killing a Dallas police officer.
Mrs. Gomez said the United
States should not kowtow to its
neighbor.
“We are not responsible for
Mexico’s problems,” she said.
“Mexico is responsible for its
own problems.”
Assistant U.S Attorney
Ruben Perez said his office only
had justice in mind, not politics.
“Of course not,” Perez said
responding to the Mrs. Gomez’s
accusations. “All I can tell you
is what I told the members of the
jury. You know, these officers
violated the law and we prose
cuted them. It’s very simple.”
While the events that led to
Olvera-Carrera’s broken neck
are not clear, Perez said, the
resulting paralysis and inability
to breathe on his own culminat
ed in a heart attack in February
2002 that caused his family to
take him off life support. Reyna
was found innocent of beating
the immigrant, while Gonzales
was convicted of unnecessarily
dousing him with pepper spray.
Gomez was in another room
of the house they were raiding
when Olvera-Carrera wis
injured, Mrs. Gomez said, ami
her son had no idea the Mexican
man was hurt. Instead, she said
they thought Olvera-Carrera
was being uncooperative. He
never claimed injury, she said.
Prosecutors, however, said
Olvera-Carrera moaned and
pleaded for help from the offi
cers for hours before finall)'
receiving medical assistance
seven hours after the raid.
Mrs. Gomez also contends
the jury only heard from
defense for a few days ;
prosecutors spent three weeks
laying out their case, v
might have worn down or con
fused the panel. Gomez’s a
ney, Jay Norton, echoed
point, but Perez said the defense
could have taken more time,
chose to rest Wednesday.
Perez said he regrets having
to pursue such cases, but the
facts demanded action by the
Justice Department.
“It brings us no joy to prose
cute police officers, but
have a duty and a responsibility
to protect and to serve,” he said
“When they violate that duty,
somebody has to hold them
responsible.”
Mrs. Gomez said her son,
who is married with two young
children, would never have will
fully committed a federal
felony, which is exactly what the
jury decided he did.
“Give me a break. Why
would Louis throw all that
away?” she said.
NEWS IN BRIEF
Perry signs health and human
services restructuring bill
Examiners more efficiently and effectively regu
late doctors.
AUSTIN (AP) — Gov. Rick Perry signed into law
Tuesday a money-saving social services reorgani
zation bill expected to eliminate thousands of
state jobs.
The legislation by Rep. Arlene Wohlgemuth, R-
Burleson, will reorganize the state's health and
human services agencies, consolidating 12
departments into four under the umbrella of the
Department of Health and Human Services.
The bill is estimated to save more than $1 billion.
Sen. Jane Nelson, R-Lewisville, the Senate spon
sor, said the bill would result in 2,162 fewer state
jobs in the coming years. But one Senate Democrat
put that figure closer to 4,000 to 5,000.
Perry also signed into law a bill by Nelson
intended to help the State Board of Medical
Judge refuses venue change
in windshield death case
FORT WORTH (AP) — A judge on Tuesday refused
to grant a change of venue in the murder trial of a
woman accused of hitting a man with her car, driv
ing home and ignoring his cries for help as he bled
to death lodged in the windshield.
State District Judge James R. Wilson also denied
another defense request to have Chante Jawan
Mallard's statements to police suppressed.
Jury selection was expected to begin next
week in Fort Worth.
Mallard, 26, was indicted last year on charges
of murder and tampering with evidence in the
death of Gregory Biggs, 37.
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