{"id":7939,"date":"2009-02-18T06:57:42","date_gmt":"2009-02-18T11:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=7939"},"modified":"2009-02-18T06:57:42","modified_gmt":"2009-02-18T11:57:42","slug":"rancher-cleared-in-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=7939","title":{"rendered":"Rancher cleared in lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Regular readers will remember the case of the rancher in Arizona we discussed last week who detained 16 illegal aliens on his property. Those posts are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=7718\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=7820\">here<\/a>. the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2009\/feb\/18\/rancher-cleared-in-rights-case\/\">Washington Times<\/a> reports this morning that he&#8217;s been cleared, but the jury awarded the illegals $78, 000 in damages;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A federal jury in Tucson ruled Tuesday that an Arizona rancher did not violate the civil rights of 16 Mexican nationals he stopped after they sneaked illegally into the United States, but awarded $78,000 in actual and punitive damages on claims of assault and the infliction of emotional distress.<\/p>\n<p>The jury of four men and four women returned the verdict Tuesday afternoon in U.S. District Court in Tucson after a day and a half of deliberation. The jury, after a nine-day trial, also threw out charges of false imprisonment, battery and conspiracy against Douglas, Ariz., rancher Roger Barnett. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF) had sought $32 million in the case they brought for the invaders of Barnett&#8217;s property. One of the plaintiffs happened to be a felon convicted and deported for drug charges in 1993. Barnett&#8217;s lawyers plan on appealing the thousands in punitive damages.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m shocked actually, that jury would cut the evil landowner protecting his own interests a break. I fully expected a southwestern jury, usually sympathetic to the criminals who illegally breach our borders, to hammer the poor guy into the ground. I hope he escapes paying the fines &#8211; he&#8217;s been fortunate up until now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regular readers will remember the case of the rancher in Arizona we discussed last week who &hellip; <a title=\"Rancher cleared in lawsuit\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=7939\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rancher cleared in lawsuit<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}