DA won't prosecute drug agent in slaying

Bexar County prosecutors said Friday they wouldn't seek criminal charges against a federal agent who shot the teenage daughter of a cocaine smuggler during a confrontation last year on a dark street.

First Assistant District Attorney Michael Bernard said federal law generally shields agents from prosecution by local authorities and that, as a result, a federal judge likely would dismiss state charges.

"The federal badge stops us in our tracks," Bernard said.

Remember the good old days, when the church had its own court system to keep its clergy out of gaol, and the nobility could not be convicted of anything on charges from a common man?

Posted on 2004-03-15 19:55:04.0 by matthew@triggerfinger.org

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