The Pink Flamingo :: More Damning Evidence Against Nicholas Corbett

Do you remember back in the spring when BP agent Nicholas Corbett went on trial for murder? Every little anti-immigration blogger and supporter came to his defense, completely ignoring the evidence against him. Don't you find it rather interesting how people who would not condone this sort of behavior against any other ethnic group turn a blind eye when illegals from Mexico are assaulted?

Well, startling new evidence has surfaced against him.

"...In a motion filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Tucson, Tyrone Mitchell, one of the prosecutors in the case, states that Corbett was arrested on charges of assault and physical property damage in November 2003 in Cheltenham, Pa., he assaulted a victim in April 2007 in Chandler, and he threatened and assaulted victims in Mesa in March 2007.

According to records, the Pennsylvania case was dropped, and Corbett never faced charges in the 2007 complaints.

The prosecution, however, will try to use the old information in the new trial.

“Evidence, in the form of testimony, police and incident reports, will rebut the defendant’s claim of self-defense and establish that the defendant was the aggressor. This evidence is also admissible to demonstrate defendant’s motive, intent, knowledge, and/or absence of mistake,” states the motion.

In an e-mail to the Herald/Review on Monday, Sean Chapman, Corbett’s lead defense attorney, declined to make any comments on these incidents, other than to say, “I will file a responsive pleading that will state our position.”

According to Mitchell’s motion, in the November 2003 case in Cheltenham, Pa., Corbett went to his neighbor’s house and damaged his property. When the neighbor confronted him, Corbett physically assaulted him. In the March 2007 case in Mesa, Corbett grabbed his girlfriend’s head, took off her glasses and spit in her ear. In April 2007 in Chandler, Corbett reportedly threatened a family and punched his girlfriend in the stomach.

In the murder case, Judge David Bury declared a mistrial in early March because the jury was deadlocked at the conclusion of a two-week trial in U.S. District Court in Tucson. A new trial is scheduled to start Sept. 9 there. The defense recently filed a change of venue motion seeking to move the trial to federal court in Phoenix due to extensive media coverage...."

It is really quite a thing of beauty. Conservative anti-immigration supporters, taking their cue from WND, went into overdrive defending Corbett. Looks like they were wrong. The man is not only a dirty cop, but he has been in trouble, more than once, for brutality and assault. With someone like that, it is only a matter of time before they turn to murder. It isn't the fact that the people were illegals. It was the fact that Corbett thought he could get away with it. Like his girlfriend whom he assaulted, Corbett, the abuser, considered the three Mexicans he murdred in cold blood sub human.

On April 24, 2007 I wrote the following:

"...MMIGRATION

We will never hear the end of this one as a Border Patrol agent is charged with murder. Naturally Nicholas Corbett’s killing of Francisco Dominguez-Rivera of Mexico was justified. After all, the latter was an illegal immigrant breaking the law.

From the Douglas Dispatch

“…Adney and fellow Sheriff's Office detective Ursula Ritchie asked the witnesses to describe Corbett's demeanor during the incident. "Rene stated that the agent that shot Francisco was aggressive, but after the second agent arrived, the first agent changed, like he was sorry," Adney wrote. Ritchie added: "Rene said the second agent appeared more sad, since he saw tears coming from his eyes." Soon, more agents arrived, and the three family members were loaded into the back of another Border Patrol SUV. "Jorge said that some of the agents who arrived later were laughing," Ritchie reported. "Others were shaking their heads."…”

T. J. Bonner then lies for the BP (as usual)

“…The Border Patrol agents' union has complained that Mexican consular officials were allowed to interview four of the six witnesses at the Naco Border Patrol station after the shooting, before sheriff's and other investigators could conduct their interviews. T.J. Bonner, the union's president, told The Associated Press that the procedural misstep would explain why Sandra, Jorge and Rene's stories "are in lockstep, because they could easily have been coached."

However, in her Jan. 12 report, Adney wrote she and Raul Hernandez, an agent with the Border Patrol's critical incident team, had already interviewed the three men in the back seat of Corbett's truck and were in the process of interviewing Sandra when three officials arrived from the Mexican Consulate in Douglas. The consular group waited in another room until the investigators were finished talking to Sandra, Adney reported. They were then given permission to speak to the four people who had already been interviewed. The three eyewitnesses told the sheriff's detectives that they talked with each other about what had happened, but did not discuss what they should or should not say. They also denied that anyone had coached them on their stories.

Their accounts do not appear to conflict with other, non-testimonial evidence in the case, which includes an autopsy report, ballistics tests and a grainy surveillance video from a Border Patrol camera tower.”

From the AZ Daily Star

“…The bullet that killed Domínguez-Rivera entered the left side of his chest, passed through his heart and liver, and settled in his right lower abdomen, a couple of inches to the right of his navel, according to an autopsy report by the Cochise County Medical Examiner's Office. The report was released with hundreds of other pages of documents related to the shooting investigation.

Domínguez-Rivera was shot from between 3 inches and 2 1/2 feet away, according to Arizona Department of Public Safety lab information included in the report.

Cochise County Attorney Ed Rheinheimer said he had not yet decided whether the agent would face charges, noting that the decision will not be made until he's had a chance to review a video of the incident captured by a Border Patrol surveillance camera. The digital video on compact disc is in the hands of the FBI, he said, where it is undergoing "video enhancement."

Corbett has returned to full active duty according to agency protocol and will continue working pending the results of the investigation, said Gustavo Soto, Border Patrol Tucson Sector spokesman. …”

The conservative anti-immigration take on this story is going to be interesting, especially since the video evidence supports the murder charge against Corbett. And according to the Tucson Citizen, the forensic evidence contradicts Corbitt’s story.

Then read how Judicial Watch spins the story:

“…Caving in to pressure from the Mexican government and relying on testimony of fellow illegal border crossers, prosecutors in one Arizona county have criminally charged a United States Border Patrol agent for shooting an aggressive illegal immigrant in the act of violating federal law.

Border Patrol agent Nicholas Corbett has actually been charged with first-degree murder for the January shooting of the illegal alien who was part of a group apprehended about a 150 yards north of the Mexico-Arizona border between Bisbee and Douglas. Corbett said the Mexican man, Francisco Javier Dominguez, became aggressive and attacked him with rocks after being detained.

Dominguez had illegally crossed into the U.S. with three others—his two brothers and a sister-in-law—who have become the prosecution’s main witnesses. Based on their testimony, Cochise County prosecutors say the shooting was not legally justified because Dominguez did not represent a threat when he was shot.”

And check out the Lone Star Times’ take on it as you read the comments. When people begin condoning first degree murder simply because the individual who was the victim of FIRST DEGREE MURDER is in the US illegally or is Hispanic, we have a very serious problem. ..."

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